print;
book-illustration
- Museum number
- 1934,0608.12
- Description
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Illustration to Fable XVI 'The Pin and the Needle' in Gay's 'Fables'; a bearded old man wielding a stick, in the centre of a room full of implements, including compasses, a mummy, a bow and arrow, a vase, a dead fish and the skeleton of a stag; a pin and needle on a table. 1727
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1727
- Dimensions
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Height: 90 millimetres
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Width: 104 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a set of illustrations after Kent at 1934,0608.4. See also 1871,0812.2398-2420 for a later set after some of the same designs by van der Gucht. According to curator's comment for the drawing for 'Pythagorus & the countryman' (P&D 1927,0721.11), Pierre Fourdrinier was the engraver, though Saur explains that engravings lettered 'P. Fourdrinier' may also be the work of Paul Fourdrinier, active in London at the same time.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Fables
- Acquisition date
- 1934
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1934,0608.12
