print
- Museum number
- 1944,1014.411
- Description
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Portrait of Louis Spohr, bust to front, head turned and looking to the right, wearing skullcap and shirt with frill.
Lithograph on chine collé
- Production date
- 1830-1843 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 154 millimetres (sheet on chine collé)
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Width: 104 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- One of a large number of portraits of musicians purchased from the Royal College of Music. See Hind's report to the Trustees dated 7 October 1944. The College only kept the prints that were framed and displayed. Unable to store the remainder, they gave the BM first choice of all prints lacking in its collection, and sold the rest to Suckling's. The purchase was funded from a block grant made to the BM by the NACF, and the cost was £50 in all.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1944,1014.411
