print; frontispiece; title-page

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Object Type: print; frontispiece; title-page
Museum number: 1863,0613.855-856
Description: Frontispiece and title-page to the Lauenburg genealogical calendar of 1782; with a bust-length portrait of Prince Adolphus Frederick as a boy aged six at left and a roundel with the title at right; printed from one plate. 1781 Etching and stipple
Producer name: Print made by: Daniel Chodowiecki; Printed by: Johann Georg Berenberg
School/style: German
Production date: 1781
Production place: Published in: Lauenburg an der Elbe
Materials: paper
Technique: etching; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 105 millimetres (Plate-mark); Height: 90 millimetres (Printed area, c.); Width: 131 millimetres; Width: 50 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: Engelmann 1857 / Daniel Chodowiecki's sämtliche Kupferstiche (397.II A and B); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (4)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Prince Adolphus Frederick, Duke of Cambridge
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Frederick Startridge Ellis
Acquisition date: 1863
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1863,0613.855-856

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