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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1865,1209.760
Title: Object: La veillée mortuaire (The death watch)
Description: Figure on deathbed, with three women praying at the bedside. 1852-65 Etching with surface tone on creamish chine collé
Producer name: Print made by: Alphonse Legros
School/style: French
Production date: 1852-1865
Materials: paper
Technique: etching
Dimensions: Height: 294 millimetres; Width: 190 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: Legros / Catalogue (125); Malassis & Thibaudeau 1877 / Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre gravé et lithographié de Alphonse Legros (125.I)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: death
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Philippe Burty
Acquisition date: 1865
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1865,1209.760

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