print
- Museum number
- 1904,0819.625
- Title
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Object: The Amusements of Men and Children in Hyde Park
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Series: Ten Views of Encampments in Hyde-Park and Black-Heath (first series)
- Description
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View in Hyde Park during the 1780 encampment; men and women drinking in a tent next to a ramshackle slatted structure with a sign inscribed 'Cary', on the right, with a soldier walking arm-in-arm with a woman across the foreground, laughing at a stout gouty man who sits sleeping in the extreme left, children playing on the right including a boy riding a broom, chased by a dog, while a man plays a pipe for a woman sitting beside him on a bank behind; plate IX. 1780
Outline etching
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 240 millimetres
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Width: 306 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For further comment see 1904,0819.733
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1904
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1904,0819.625