print
- Museum number
- 1878,0713.1425
- Title
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Object: "Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee"
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Object: "Well had the bonding tremblers learn'd to trace"
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Series: The Deserted Village
- Description
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Two images of children in school, printed from one plate:
"Full well they laugh'd with counterfeited glee", above: eight children sitting on bench, during lesson, reading text books, one in the centre covering his face with book, young child to the right scratching her eye.
"Well had the bonding tremblers learn'd to trace", below: the same eight children as above on bench, during break, one on the left eating bread, three in the centre singing, young child to the right kneeling on the floor.
Illustrations to Oliver Goldsmith's 'The Deserted Village'. 1841
Etching
- Production date
- 1841
- Dimensions
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Height: 200 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 138 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The series 'The Deserted Village' was issued by the Etching Club in 1841.
Republished in 'Favourite English poems of the last two centuries unabridged' (London: 1862, Sampson Low, Son, & Co.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Deserted Village
- Acquisition date
- 1878
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1878,0713.1425