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Object Type
print
Museum number
1866,1208.51
Title
Object:
The Village Pastor
Description
A pastor reaches out his hand to bless a little girl who pulls at his coat, presented by her mother, while the father doffs his cap, in the garden outside the old, overgrown church, with other villagers including an old woman leaning on her stick and a woman supporting a young girl on the low wall in the foreground: after Frith: etched state. 1847 Etching on chine collé
Producer name
Print made by:
William Chevalier
After:
William Powell Frith
Published by:
Thomas Boys
Published by:
Ernest Gambart
School/style
British
Production date
1847
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Published in:
Paris (France)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
Dimensions
Height:
660 millimetres
Width:
840 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location
Not on display
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
W H McQueen
(sale Southgate 4-11.ix.1866)
Purchased through:
Colnaghi
Acquisition date
1866
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1866,1208.51