print
- Museum number
- 1918,0713.41
- Description
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Classical landscape, two figures, a woman standing and a soldier in a plumed helmet sitting with his spear in right hand under a leafy tree to left, with a classical urn at the edge of a pool to right, a mountain in the background and classical buildings in the middle distance.
Chiaroscuro woodcut with two blocks printed in brown and ochre
- Production date
- 1720-1730 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 218 millimetres (image)
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Width: 189 millimetres (image)
- Curator's comments
- The line block might be a metal cut printed in relief.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1918
- Acquisition notes
- Still on the sheet of Smith's album of chiaroscuro woodcuts.
The run of prints from 1918,0713.9 through to 73 all come from two albums of colour woodcuts formed by Consul Smith in Venice in the second quarter of the XVIIIc. They were broken up at the sale at Sotheby's 26-28 June 1918 of the collection of the Rev. James Franck Bright, DD, late Master of University College Oxford, and formerly collected by Dr Richard Bright, MD. Colnaghi acted as the BM's agent, and Dodgson put together a group of donors who presented individual prints; these were purchased outright, while the rest were exchanged for duplicates.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1918,0713.41