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Object Type
Museum number: 1872,0511.528
Title: Object: The Frail Sisters
Description: Two young women dressed in fine clothes in a room with decorated wallpaper, one sitting in front of the window looking onto the street, with a pet squirrel on her lap, turning to smile towards the viewer and pointing at herself, while the other stands behind her chair on the right. 12 May 1794 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Anonymous; Published by: Laurie & Whittle
School/style
Production date: 1794
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 351 millimetres; Width: 253 millimetres
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Curator's comments: For a coloured impression see 2010,7081.1077
Bibliographic references: Sayer/Laurie & Whittle Posture Mezzotints / Catalogue of prints for the year 1775 (270); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1872
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1872,0511.528

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