drawing;
print study(?)
- Museum number
- 1900,0717.64
- Description
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Love and Hope; two women standing either side of a gate, a soldier seated on a hummock and holding a rifle, a church tower in the distance. c.1786
Black chalk, touched with red chalk
- Production date
- 1786
- Dimensions
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Height: 322 millimetres
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Width: 401 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This drawing appears to be a pair with 'Love and Jealousy' (P&D 1900-7-17-63). Both were engraved by Charles Knight and published by William Dickinson 1 December 1786. John Riely considers that the original drawing for Knight's engraving is in the Huntingdon Art Gallery, and that the two drawings in the BM are copies after the engravings. See exh. 'Henry William Bunbury', Gainsborough's House, 1983, cat. nos.48, 49.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1983 Feb-Apr, Suffolk, Gainsborough's House Society, 'Henry William Bunbury' no. 48
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,0717.64
