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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1899,0420.31
Title: Object: Love and Constancy Rewarded
Description: A sailor returned home to a woman who sits outside a thatched cottage, looking up at him as he shows her a souvenir, leaning against the post of a wooden fence; chickens and chicks feeding around them and a church tower in the background to right; after Morland. 1785 Mezzotint printed in brown ink
Producer name: Print made by: Philip Dawe; After: George Morland; Published by: William Hinton
School/style: British
Production date: 1785
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 326 millimetres; Width: 354 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: 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: Purchased from: Joseph Grego
Previous owner: Previous owner/ex-collection: Hon Algernon Bourke; Previous owner/ex-collection: Henry Milner
Acquisition date: 1899
Acquisition notes: The 51 prints purchased from Joseph Grego (1899,0420.1 to 51) are recorded as having been selected from a collection of prints after George Morland formed by the Hon. Algernon Bourke, afterwards the property of Henry Milner, Esq. The collection was sold in 214 lots at Christie's on 14/5 February 1899.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1899,0420.31

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