print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1912,1217.439
- Title
- Object: "They prawled around me at night"
- Description
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Moonlit scene in the Andes, with a puma running to right in the snow, stopping to look at a tent at left; proof illustration to Edward Whymper's 'Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator' (London: 1892; page 229); after Joseph Wolf; state after height of block reduced.
Wood-engraving on thin paper
- Production date
- 1883-1892
- Dimensions
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Height: 138 millimetres (image)
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Width: 108 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1912,1217.438 for state before the block was reduced in height.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Travels amongst the Great Andes of the Equator
- Acquisition date
- 1912
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1912,1217.439