print; book of prints

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Object Type: print; book of prints
Museum number: 1870,1112.432-461
Title: Object: Etchings for the Art-Union of London
Description: "Etchings for the Art-Union of London by the Etching Club" (London, The Etching Club) 1857; containing 30 etchings on various figurative, landscape, mythological, genre and other imaginative subjects. Bound with contents page in original green cloth album with gold-tooled title. Etchings, printed on chine collé
Producer name: Published by: Etching Club; Print made by: Charles West Cope; Print made by: Thomas Creswick; Print made by: Frederick Tayler; Print made by: Thomas Webster; Print made by: Samuel Palmer; Print made by: John Callcott Horsley; Print made by: James Clarke Hook; Print made by: Richard Ansdell; Print made by: Henry James Townsend; Print made by: William Edward Frost; Print made by: Richard Redgrave; Print made by: George Bernard O'Neill; Print made by: William Holman Hunt; Print made by: John Everett Millais
School/style
Production date: 1857
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 356 millimetres (sheet size of each page); Width: 266 millimetres
Curator's comments: The etchings by Richard Ansdell have been catalogued separately (1870,1112.439 and 449).
Bibliographic references: Lister 1988 / Catalogue raisonné of the works of Samuel Palmer (E.6.IV); Bronkhurst 2006 / William Holman Hunt, a catalogue raisonné (App.B2)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: landscape; courtship/love; peasant/villager; herder; classical mythological figure/creature; fisherman/fishing
Associated titles
Acquisition date: 1870
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1870,1112.432-461

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