print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1868,1114.430
- Title
- Object: Kalmucks Removing
- Description
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View of a camp with a figure cooking at the door of a domed tent beneath a tree in the left foreground, others sitting inside, behind a group of Kalmyks on horseback with camels make their way to right, hills behind and water beyond at right, frame surrounding image; illustration from Dr John Trusler's 'The Habitable World Described'. c.1788-1806
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1788-1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 95 millimetres
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Width: 165 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Although inscribed Beswick, this print and the others at 1868,1114.25 & 27-29 are assumed to be by John Bewick, who contributed designs for three other plates and a number of vignettes to the publication, as catalogued by Tattersfield (JB24, see 1868,1114.424 and 426).
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Habitable World Described
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,1114.430