print;
book-illustration;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1867,0309.1475
- Description
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A group aiding a wounded man on a road, his torso and head bare, lying in the arms of a kneeling man at right, one of the group standing behind passing a letter to the others; hat and sword lying in foreground, a man standing with horses watching from beneath bare tree in background at right, beyond which are houses and a carriage; frontispiece to volume VIII of an unidentified publication
Etching
- Production date
- 1770s
- Dimensions
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Height: 145 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 78 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also 1867,0309.1474 which appears to be from the same publication.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 1867,0309.1475