print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 1894,0417.243
- Title
- Object: Fairies on the Seashore
- Description
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Coastal landscape with fairies dancing in the lapping waves, illuminated by the sun shining through arches in the rock behind, as a procession of leaf-like boats approach; after Francis Danby, illustration to the 'Literary Souvenir' (1833), p. 101; proof before letters
Engraving and etching on chine collé
- Production date
- 1833 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 125 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 190 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- Published for Alaric A. Watts, information from Francis Greenacre's 'Francis Danby' Tate Gallery exhibition catalogue, 1989, No. 139 (an impression from Bristol Art Gallery exhibited) and see also No. 111 for the original watercolour, loaned to the exhibition by Thomas Agnew & Sons.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1894
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1894,0417.243