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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1853,0212.235
Title: Object: Eloisa
Description: The nun, sitting on her simple bed in her cell, holding a letter in her left hand, resting on her knee, the other arm propped on the bedstead as she gestures to her heart, while she looks up to the crucifix on a table on the right, with a Bible open on a stand below it. 1792 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Raphael Smith; Published by: Antonio Cesare Poggi
School/style: British
Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 558 millimetres; Width: 405 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: D'Oench 1999 / Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (319); Frankau 1902 / John Raphael Smith, his Life and Works (127.II); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (192)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Héloïse; Representation of: Pierre Abélard; Illustration to: Alexander Pope
Acquisition name: Purchased from: George E Mason
Acquisition date: 1853
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1853,0212.235

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