print
- Museum number
- 1856,0510.10
- Title
- Series: Royal Gallery of British Art
- Description
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The Procession to the Christening; women wearing their finest gowns, headdresses with lace veils and lace trimmed shawls, approaching the entrance to a basilica, accompanied by many children, preceded by two men, who doff their hats as they enter the church on the extreme left, with a woman and kneeling child sitting on the step in the foreground, watching; after Williams; with production details only. 1839
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1839
- Dimensions
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Height: 252 millimetres (image)
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Height: 353 millimetres
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Width: 332 millimetres (image)
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Width: 505 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- After the painting exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1832
See 1856,0510.1
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1856
- Acquisition notes
- According to the register 1856,0510.1 to 48 (proofs of Finden's 'Gallery of British Art') were purchased at an unidentified sale at Sotheby's.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1856,0510.10