print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1900,1231.5731-5739
- Description
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Group of nine book-illustrations, after Eisen, to Boccaccio's 'Decameron' (London, 1779)
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1779 (c)
- Dimensions
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Height: 136 millimetres (average; cut form larger plate)
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Width: 105 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the book see 1900,1231.5652.
These are illustrations to the second, fourth, sixth and seventh tales of the First Day; the fourth and fifth tales of the Fifth Day; and the third, fourth and sixth tales of the Sixth Day.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Decameron
- Acquisition date
- 1900
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1900,1231.5731-5739