print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1918,0703.3.1.+
- Title
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Object: Beech and Oak.
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Series: The Park and the Forest
- Description
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Frontispiece; two figures seated on hay on a horse-drawn cart, approaching on a country road; a man seated on a log in foreground at left, near three beech trees; a group of oak trees on the right side of the road, and a castle seen in centre background, at Elze on the Moselle. 1841
Lithotint, printed with fawn tint stone on Smith & Chapman's adhesed paper
- Production date
- 1841
- Dimensions
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Height: 397 millimetres (image)
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Width: 291 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a series of 26 sheets of lithotints of different types of trees drawn on locations, including a frontispiece, printed with fawn tint stone, half-bound in green and red leather and green cloth, with tooling on spine and in gold ornamental border around title, lettered in gold: 'The Park and the Forest. J.D. Harding.'
The frontispiece is lettered with series title 'The Park and the Forest by J.D. Harding.'. The series was published by Thomas Mclean, 26, Haymarket, London, and printed by Charles Hullmandel on Smith & Chapman's adhesed paper in 1841. The volume contains a printed List of Plates, which gives the titles of the individual prints and the locations where the trees were drawn.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1918
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1918,0703.3.1.+