print
- Museum number
- 1919,1124.12
- Title
- Object: Metz
- Description
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View of a town dominated by a cathedral rising on the left, seen from the river with a stone bridge in the middle distance, with a long wooden hut against the left bank and a couple sitting on the right bank in the foreground, two boats pulled up alongside them; engraver's proof.
Etching with surface tone on thin laid paper
- Production date
- 1859-1919
- Dimensions
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Height: 177 millimetres
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Width: 227 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a set of twenty views presented to BM P&D by the engraver, most of them signed proofs.
Sir Ernest George travelled to Europe in 1859-61.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1919
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1919,1124.12