print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.6933
- Description
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Thalia, muse of Comedy, seated to right on a rock, holding a shepherd's staff in her right hand, putting a mask and wreath of ivy on the head of a child; bordered by two horizontal lines and rectagular outer border of two lines; proof illustration to Sharpe's 'British Theatre'; finished state but before completion of border. 1804
Etching with stipple
- Production date
- 1804
- Dimensions
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Height: 190 millimetres
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Width: 120 millimetres (platemark)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See other impressions 1879,0809.457 to 460.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.6933