album;
print
- Museum number
- 1866,0512.2109-2110
- Title
- Object: The Seasons
- Description
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Two plates, each showing six small images with figures working, resting and playing, representing the months of the year, the first plate showing from January to June, and the second plate showing July to December.
Etching, with some hand-colouring
- Production date
- 1815-1866
- Dimensions
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Height: 268 millimetres (each plate approx., trimmed)
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Width: 175 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bound album of fashion prints, with title-page handwritten in pen and ink: "A Collection of Prints and literary scraps illustrating costume, vol. 1". This is the first volume of 3. Some of the plates have been catalogued individually, and when possible some of the plates have been grouped. Bound in black half-leather, with blue bookcloth, raised bands and gold lettering at the spine.
Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1866
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1866,0512.2109-2110
