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print; book of prints; album

Object Type: print; book of prints; album
Museum number: 1895,0606.1.1-136
Title: Object: Wood-Engraving
Description: "Wood-Engraving; One Hundred and Thirty-Six Proofs by W. J. Linton"; containing 136 proof impressions of Linton's wood-engravings of various sizes and subjects, pasted and bound with letterpress titlepage and list of the prints. Wood-engravings
Producer name: Print made by: William James Linton; After: Raphael; After: Gustave Doré; After: Benjamin Robert Haydon; After: William Blake; After: Richard Principal Leitch; After: Francesco Francia; After: Dante Gabriel Rossetti; After: Joseph Mallord William Turner; After: William John Hennessy; After: Granville Perkins; After: William Morris Hunt; After: Titian
School/style: British; French; Italian
Production date: 1850-1887 (c.)
Production place: Published in: London (England); Published in: North America
Materials
Technique: wood-engraving; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 420 millimetres (sheet size of each); Width: 296 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Subjects: society/human life; landscape; animal; advertising; theatre/theatrical life; still-life; plant; railways; boat/ship
Associated names: Associated with: The Illustrated London News; Associated with: William Cobbett; Representation of: Laurence Sterne; Illustration to: Robinson Crusoe; Portrait of: William James Linton; Illustration to: Jane G. Austin ("Moonfolk"); Representation of: Edwin Booth; Representation of: Robert Edward Lee; Representation of: John Milton; Portrait of: William Cullen Bryant; Portrait of: Allan Wardner
Associated places: Topographic representation of: North America; Topographic representation of: Europe; Topographic representation of: Egypt
Associated titles
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1895
Acquisition notes: In Linton's hand on titlepage: "Presented by the Engraver to the Print Room of the British Museum/ W J Linton, 1895"
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1895,0606.1.1-136