print;
book
- Museum number
- 1856,0209.408
- Title
- Series: America: A Prophecy
- Description
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Copy H, plate 17; 26 lines of verse beginning "On Albions Angels..."; textual decoration including figures; left margin decorated with figures, birds and vegetation; below, 5 nude female figures, grape vine and flames. 1793
Relief etching and white-line etching printed in a greyish blue ink
Verso: Copy H, plate 18: "Finis"; illustrated above with spiky leafless trees and a giant gowned figure, probably female, kneeling with head bowed to the ground and hands raised as if in prayer, her long hair or tears falling over the edge of a cliff; 5 smaller figures positioned on or beside her body; 23 lines of verse beginning "Over the hills..."; illustrated below with flowers and thorns and, perhaps, 2 tiny figures. 1793
Relief etching printed in a greyish blue ink
- Production date
- 1793
- Dimensions
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Height: 232 millimetres (recto)
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Height: 235 millimetres (verso)
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Width: 170 millimetres (recto)
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Width: 173 millimetres (verso)
- Curator's comments
- For commentary on "America: a Prophecy" copy H, see 1856,0209.399.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Acquisition notes
- For acquisition notes, see 1856,0209.399.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0209.408