print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1864,0611.641
- Description
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At a post office, an employee standing in foreground at right, looking through the side of a sealed letter, trying to read it by holding it up to the light, watched by a standing woman, and another seated at a sorting table with stacks of letters at left; poster on wall behind lettered with 'General Post Office'; a young female customer standing at the open door in background at right, listening to a clerk hind the counter; proof illustration to 'The Keepsake'; after Richter.
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1828-1833
- Dimensions
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Height: 215 millimetres
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Width: 151 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- 1864,0611.552 to 728 is a set of 177 proofs of plates published in 'The Keepsake" from 1828 onwards, arranged in alphabetical order by designer. A bound set of 107 proofs for the years 1828 to 1833 is at 167.c.17 (1948, 0410.20.1 to 107).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Keepsake
- Acquisition date
- 1864
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1864,0611.641