print
- Museum number
- 1944,1014.475
- Description
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Portrait of Ferdinando Pàer, bust, facing front, seated behind a square piano; proof before title added
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1810-1828 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres (plate-mark)
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Width: 259 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1944
- Acquisition notes
- Inscribed in pen and ink with "1-563" below Chaloner's signature (L.2295bis).
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
- 1944,1014.475