print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1882,0311.2228
- Description
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Title-page cut from 'The Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds', Second Edition (Newcastle: 1824), showing a man riding a horse on a meandering country road in heavy rain, past road sign at left; man hanging from gallows at right; printed from three blocks.
Wood-engraving and letterpress
- Production date
- 1780-1824
- Dimensions
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Height: 51 millimetres (image)
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Height: 74 millimetres (sheet)
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Width: 83 millimetres (image)
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Width: 106 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cut impression. See 1882,0311.2230 for another impression, 1882,0311.2229 and 1860,0811.155 for earlier state, also related are 1882,0311.2227 and 1882,0311.2226 (see inscriptions). See 1882,0311.3457 for similar image printed from different block.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Figures of Bewick's Quadrupeds
- Acquisition date
- 1882
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1882,0311.2228
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: I.B. 1777