print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1900,0613.89
- Title
- Object: The Vain Glow-Worm
- Description
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Plate XXXI: a glow-worm in the left foreground, a fly beside, river in the right background; in an oval in a rectangle; illustration to 'Fables' by James Northcote (London: 1828, series 1, fable 31, page 80); proof before pillar design added behind the rectangle. 1828
Wood-engraving with letterpress
- Production date
- 1828
- Dimensions
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Height: 52 millimetres (image)
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Width: 71 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1900,0613.602 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Fables
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,0613.89