print
- Museum number
- 1913,0212.48
- Title
- Series: Modern Art
- Description
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The Duel Interrupted; a young woman in Elizabethan dress rushing to stay the hand of a young man standing on the left, who looks to right at his opponent, flanked by his second and an elderly woman who talk eagerly behind his back, while the doctor, standing to right, holding a gourd, gestures towards the food-basket and tankard waiting on the ground and the younger man's second stands officiously to left, with a half-timbered building in the background; after Stone; unlettered proof.
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Production date
- 1835-1886
- Dimensions
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Height: 342 millimetres
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Width: 464 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This impression comes from a series of India paper proofs before letters in the BM (1913,0212.10 to 69) many of which it seems were later published by Virtue in the Art Journal; it remains to be determined whether this print was re-published in this way. Many of these plates were subsequently reprinted in James' Dafforne "Modern Art: a Series of Line Engravings from the Works of Distinguished Painters of the English and Foreign Schools ... With Descriptive text by J. Dafforne'', London (Virtue & Co); this comprised 120 prints after paintings by contemporary masters issued in two series of 60 plates each (1886). 22 of the series 1913,0212.10 to 69 overlap with prints in the series 1923,1112.121 to 168; these were probably cut out from Dafforne's volume, of which there is no copy in the BM.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1913
- Acquisition notes
- 1913,0212.10 to 69 are a set of proof engravings from 'Modern Art', edited by James Dafforne, London (Virtue & Co) 1886
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1913,0212.48
