print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 1937,0802.1.45
- Title
- Series: Diversae Facies
- Description
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Portrait of a boy with wavy hair to his neck, bust length seen from the front; from a series of thirteen prints showing human expression, trimmed and pasted on a sheet. 1656
Etching
- Production date
- 1656
- Dimensions
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Height: 87 millimetres
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Width: 78 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This is one of a series of thirteen showing facial expressions, for a comment on the series see 1937.0802.1.37. For other impression see 1843,0513.289.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1753
- Acquisition notes
- Transferred to the department from the British Library in 1889; originally part of Hans Sloane's collection. Unidentified seal (showing a monkey?) in red wax on 1937.0802.1.1. The old British Library registration number inscribed in graphite on the title-page, at top left: "554.b.6 / 3".
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1937,0802.1.45