print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1925,0305.9
- Title
- Object: The Sad Historian
- Description
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An old woman wearing a broad-brimmed hat, cloak and tattered clothes, standing at the edge of a stream, poking with her stick in the shallows, carrying a basket in the other, with a bank of trees to right and village in the background; in a double border; illustration to 'Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell' (London 1795); proof.
Wood-engraving
- Production date
- 1795
- Dimensions
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Height: 285 millimetres (sheet, approx.)
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Height: 115 millimetres
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Width: 220 millimetres (sheet, approx.)
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Width: 93 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a set of illustrations to the publication: 1925,0305.5-13. For the principal title-page see 1925,0305.5.
The annotation may be from the engraver to the printer or the publisher to the engraver.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Poems by Goldsmith and Parnell
- Acquisition date
- 1925
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1925,0305.9
