drawing;
printing-block
- Museum number
- 1943,0701.1
- Title
- Object: Charybde et Scylla
- Description
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Design for a book-illustration; a little girl, seated and holding a bowl of milk, looking towards three geese and two hens who approach from the right, with a cat on the left lapping milk which spills from the bowl.
Graphite on wood-block, partly cut for printing
- Production date
- 1855-1865 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 102 millimetres
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Width: 134 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1943
- Acquisition notes
- This item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45. The British Museum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1943,0701.1