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Object Type
Museum number: 1893,1115.58
Title: Object: Caxton Memorial
Description: 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
Producer name: Print made by: Frederick Bacon; After: Edward Henry Wehnert; Published by: Hering & Remington
School/style
Production date: 1852
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; etching; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 615 millimetres; Width: 771 millimetres
$Inscriptions
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
Subjects: printmaking/printing; book/newspaper; printmaker
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1893
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1893,1115.58

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