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Object Type
print
Museum number
1917,1208.949
Title
Object:
The Song
Description
Young woman holding music score and singing with her young brother on l, two other women playing lute and singing on r, dog asleep in the foreground, landscape seen through arch in the background, within oval; after Henry Bunbury. 1782 Hand-coloured etching and stipple
Producer name
Print made by:
Francesco Bartolozzi
After:
Henry William Bunbury
Published by:
William Dickinson
School/style
British
Production date
1782
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
stipple
hand-coloured
Dimensions
Height:
413 millimetres
Width:
360 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
Calabi & De Vesme 1928 / Francesco Bartolozzi. Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique d'après les manuscrits de A. De Vesme entièrement réformés et complétés d'une étude critique par A. Calabi
(1388)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
music
Associated names
Associated with:
Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire
Acquisition name
Donated by:
Nan Ino Cooper, Baroness Lucas of Crudwell and Lady Dingwall
(L.1696)
In Memory of:
Auberon Thomas Herbert, 9th Baron Lucas of Crudwell and 5th Lord Dingwall
Acquisition date
1917
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1917,1208.949