print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1354
- Description
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Classical setting with woman standing between two men, one of whom leans on a walking stick; they stand at the bottom of a high pedestal supporting the statue of a sphinx carrying a burning cauldron; illustration to 'Troilus & Cressida' in an English edition of Shakespeare's works. c.1740/60
Etching
- Production date
- 1740-1760 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 130 millimetres (image area)
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Height: 158 millimetres (plate-mark; total)
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Width: 208 millimetres
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Width: 76 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1867,0309.1351 for comment.
Printed from the same plate and on the same sheet as 1869,0309.1355; the whole plate originally included four illustrations.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Troilus and Cressida
- Acquisition date
- 1867
- Acquisition notes
- The BM purchased at the sale from the prints sold in bundles rather than in individual lots. It bought lots 47, 106, 352 and 431 in their entirely. It also made selections from lots 1,2,3,5,11,49,50,75,93,107,108,115,116,162,358. It is not easy from the register to work out which prints belonged to which lot.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1867,0309.1354