print;
popular print;
writing sheet
- Museum number
- 1903,0408.46
- Title
- Object: Pleasing Lessons for Youth to Draw from
- Description
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A writing sheet with seven illustrations showing, 'Diversions after School Hours', 'A Country Inn', 'A Snug Freehold', 'The Young Draughtsman', 'Innocence', [two sheep], [herder and his goat]; bottom of the sheet cut off.
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1786
- Dimensions
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Height: 358 millimetres (cut)
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Width: 360 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Another impression sold at Stride & Son, Chichester, 26 March 2015 (Lot 336) has a publication line reading, "Pubd. as the Act directs, Novr. 12 1786, by Robert Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller, No.53, Fleet Street." (information from Jill Shefrin, 19 June 2019)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1903
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1903,0408.46
