print
- Museum number
- 1936,0302.14.29
- Title
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Object: L'Aumône
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Series: Les Artistes Anciens et Modernes
- Description
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Plate 28: inside a house, a finely dressed woman is about to drop a coin into a hat held across the open half of the door by a boy accompanied by a man and a woman; wooden panelling and leaded glass are some of the features of the interior, and light shines through from outdoors; after Henri Leys
Lithograph on chine buff collé
- Production date
- 1849-1862 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 215 millimetres (image)
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Width: 168 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This print, from Volume 1, 1ère Année, 2ème livraison, is in one of three bound volumes in the Department of Prints and Drawings (1936,0302.14.1-49, 1936,0302.15.1-49 and 1936,0302.16.1-49). For further information on the series, including dating, see Curator’s Comment on 1936,0302.14.1.
According to the list of plates, the woman is dressed in Flemish 16thC costume.
For another impression of this print, from the same series, see 1880,0710.30.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1936
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred from the Department of Printed Books
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1936,0302.14.29
