print
- Museum number
- 1871,1209.3334
- Title
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Object: The celebrated Miss Wilkinson, the female wire dancer
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Series: The Cryes of the City of London Drawne after the Life
- Description
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Plate 15; a female acrobat balancing on a slack wire, with pole in hand; from late series of the Cries of London, the plate considerably reworked with head and feet altered, wire replacing a rope and re-titled. 1688, reworked and published after c.1750
Etching
- Production date
- 1688-1821
- Dimensions
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Height: 233 millimetres
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Width: 161 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- According to Raines, plates in the late editions of the series "were re-engraved with alterations after L.P. Boitard" (p.97). See curator's comment for 1871,1209.3323 for full note on this late series..
Orginally titled 'the famous Dutch woman' (see 1972,U.370.63)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,1209.3334
