print;
book-illustration;
frontispiece;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1930,0512.280
- Description
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Two images printed from a single plate: frontispiece to left a woman sitting on a chair in profile to left, stitching, while a little girl is sitting next to her facing front, reading a book; a garden in the background; title page to right a vignette showing a wooded landscape and a figure visible in the distance; possibly illustration to the 'Tales of the Castle' by Stéphanie Félicité de Genlis; proof before all letters.
Etching and engraving on chine collé
- Dimensions
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Height: 143 millimetres
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Width: 165 millimetres
- Curator's comments
- For comment on the album see 1930,0512.229.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Tales of the Castle (?)
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1930,0512.280