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Object Type
print
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
British
Production date
1794
Materials
paper
Technique
mezzotint
Dimensions
Height:
351 millimetres
Width:
253 millimetres
$Inscriptions
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
Purchased from:
George Love
Acquisition date
1872
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1872,0511.528