print
- Museum number
- 1861,1214.62
- Title
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Object: The Blind Fiddler
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Series: The National Gallery of Pictures by the Great Masters
- Description
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Plate 59: A blind, old fiddler on the left, playing to a large family; an old woman by the hearth holding a small child in her lap, two children watching the fiddler, a man and woman behind them playing with another child, and two boys on the right, one trying to imitate the fiddler, various domestic objects scattered around the room; illustration from a catalogue of the collection of the National Gallery (1836); after a painting by Wilkie.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1830s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 118 millimetres (image)
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Height: 206 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 161 millimetres (image)
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Width: 270 millimetres (sheet)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From the 'National Gallery of pictures by the Great Masters, Presented by Individuals or Purchased by Grant of Parliament', published serially by Jones & Co.
See 1837,0513.236 for another impression.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1861
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1861,1214.62