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Object Type
Museum number: 1893,0411.5
Title: Object: The Romps
Description: Interior of a schoolroom, a young woman entering to right expressing displeasure, taking hold of the ink-stained skirts of a little girls who looks down, her curls loose and dishevelled, bonnet on the floor behind her, two others on either side of her, one of whom tries to put her clothes to rights, four others further back to left, looking neater, one holding a book, one hiding her face in another's shoulder, and an overturned table with ink-bottle and papers on the floor just inside the door; after Bigg. 1796 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: William Ward; After: William Redmore Bigg (also publisher)
School/style
Production date: 1796
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 484 millimetres; Width: 605 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: See also the version by Rugendas (2010,7081.2665).
Bibliographic references: Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (244); 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
Acquisition date: 1893
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1893,0411.5

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