print
- Museum number
- 1868,1212.600
- Title
-
Object: No. 6
-
Series: The Winter's Day Delineated
- Description
-
A prison cell, where a woman is kneeling, praying, beside an old bearded man, who sits chained to the wall on the left, with a view of a stormy sea through a barred arched window on the left; illustration to Mrs. Robinson's poem, after Cosway. 1803
Etching and aquatint printed in brown ink on brown paper
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
-
Height: 285 millimetres
-
Width: 350 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- For more information on the set, see 1875,0814.1422.
No.67
'Tis on the Prison's flinty floor,
'Tis where the deafening whirlwinds roar
'Tis when the sea-boy on the mast
Hears the wave clamouring at the blast
And looks below!
(Alexander 67)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Winter's Day
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,1212.600