print; book-illustration; title-page

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Object Type: print; book-illustration; title-page
Museum number: 1870,0709.810
Description: Vignette from title-page to Jame Fenimore Cooper's 'The Prairie', a tombstone beneath a tree at right, two mourners standing at left. 1832 Etching and engraving
Producer name: After: Ferdinand Pickering; Print made by: William Greatbach; Published by: Richard Bentley; Published by: Henry Colburn
School/style
Production date: 1832
Production place: Published in: London (England); Published in: Edinburgh; Published in: Paris (France)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving
Dimensions: Height: 78 millimetres (sheet); Width: 109 millimetres (sheet)
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Curator's comments: See 1870,0709.796 for frontispiece to the novel. This vignette is likely to have appeared on the adjacent title-page, see 1870,0709.801-802 for example for comparison.
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,0709.810

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