print
- Museum number
- 1930,1127.2
- Title
- Letter reader
- Description
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A young woman seated at a table reading a letter with a maid beside her looking t a painting behind a curtain, after the painting by Metsu. 1930
Colour mezzotint, printed à la poupée on a sheet of chine collé
- Production date
- 1930
- Dimensions
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Height: 536 millimetres
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Width: 412 millimetres
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- Curator's comments
- One of a group of 9 mezzotints by Arthur Hogg after old master paintings, given to the BM by their publisher The Museum Galleries (1930,1127.1 to 9). All except the first are after Gabriel Metsu. The prints remain in their original mounts, with tissue and printed identifying labels, and are kept together in a portfolio.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1930
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1930,1127.2