print
- Museum number
- 1877,1013.759
- Title
- Series: Six prints of children playing adults
- Description
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Girl standing to left, holding a bird cage with two birds in it; two boys are standing to her right; looking at the birds; man clutching a bird in the background. 1765
Etching
- Production date
- 1765
- Dimensions
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Height: 137 millimetres
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Width: 77 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See curator's comment for 1877,1013.749
For another impression, see 1877,1013.760; for a copy, presumably by a French printmaker, see 1852,1211.162.
Lit.: Anke Fröhlich-Schauseil, 'Schenau (1737- 1806): Monographie und Werkverzeichnis der Gemälde, Handzeichnungen und Druckgraphik von Johann Eleazar Zeissig, gen. Schenau', Petersberg, 2018, cat. no. G 2.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1994/5 Sep-Jan, BM, German Printmaking in the Age of Goethe, no. 9a
1995 Jan-Mar, Lancaster, Peter Scott Gall, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Mar-May, Edinburgh, NG Scotland, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 May-Jun, Newcastle, Northumbria Univ Gall, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Jul-Aug, Plymouth City Mus & AG, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Sep-Oct, York City AG, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
1995 Nov-Dec, Nottingham, Djanogly AG, German Printmaking Age/Goethe
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,1013.759
