print
- Museum number
- X,3.430-459
- Title
- Series: Horses of different lands
- Description
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Series of twenty-eight plates depicting horses from different lands; each plate showing one or two horses in a landscape; the series preceded by a frontispiece depicting Minerva in a chariot, driven by Prudence and Charity, and by a dedication sheet. 1590
Etching
- Production date
- 1590
- Dimensions
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Height: 140 millimetres (approx. size of each sheet)
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Width: 164 millimetres (approx. size of each plate)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- BM also has four plates from the series which were originally from the Sloane Collection and are kept with the 'Material for the History of Print Collecting and Usage': see 1995,0930.75 to 78. This implies that this set might have come from Fawkener.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- see comment on X,3.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- X,3.430-459
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1980,U.449-478