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- Museum number
- 1893,1115.58
- Title
- Object: Caxton Memorial
- Description
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William Caxton seated, examining a sheet of type, surrounded by members of his workshop who all lean in to read, a man holding up a block of type beside a press at left, a women entering with a tray of drinks at right; after Edward Henry Wehnert; proof before letters. 1852
Mezzotint with stipple and etching on chine collé
- Production date
- 1852
- Dimensions
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Height: 615 millimetres
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Width: 771 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The watercolour was first exhibited at the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours, London in 1850 (no.193) as 'Caxton reading the first proof-sheet from his printing press in Westminster Abbey, March 1574'.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1893
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1893,1115.58
