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Object Type
Museum number: 1875,0508.526
Title: Object: Caxton Showing his First Proof Sheet to the Abbot of Westminster
Description: Earl Rivers standing on the left, his hand on Caxton's shoulder, both watching Abbot John Esteney who sits looking at a printed sheet, at a small table beside the press, with Wynkyn de Worde sitting behind the Abbot, and manuscript books on a small foot-stool in the foreground; proof without title. 1850 Mixed method
Producer name: Print made by: William Walker; After: James Edmund Doyle; Published by: William Walker
School/style
Production date: 1850
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mixed method; mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 653 millimetres; Width: 528 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: William Caxton; Representation of: John Esteney, Abbot of Westminster; Representation of: Anthony Woodville, 2nd Earl Rivers; Representation of: Wynkyn de Worde
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1875
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1875,0508.526

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