print;
newspaper/periodical;
book
- Museum number
- 1948,0409.4.1-7
- Title
- Series: Seven designs in outline of pictures illustrative of British History
- Description
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Bound volume of seven prints published by the Art Union of London on the subject of British History (1847). Prints designed by George Scharf Junior, W B Scott, W P Salter, Noel Paton, E H Corbould, M Claxton and E Armitage; executed by E Webb and H C Shenton; illustrations of scenes from history with the following titles: 'Non Angli sed Angeli'; 'Saxon Almsgiving'; 'King Alfred addressing his son Edward'; 'The seizure of Roger Mortimer'; 'The Welcome of King Henry the Sixth into London'; 'Spenser reading "The Faerie Queene"' and 'Howard visiting a prison'; volume bound in red with gold tool and gold lettering on front cover: 'British History'
Outline etching
- Production date
- 1847
- Dimensions
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Height: 295 millimetres (volume)
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Width: 413 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a set of designs from cartoons submitted in competition for a premium of five hundred pounds offered by the Art Union of London for an original picture illustrative of British History in 1844. Twenty-eight pictures were submitted and the prize given to H C Selous for 'Queen Philippa interceding for the lives of the Burgesses of Calais'. This prize picture was to be engraved when completed; meanwhile, 'The Art Journal' published reduced outline etchings of seven others which were deemed particularly good, for distribution among the subscribers, on 1 March 1847 with another pair: 'The Last Embrace' and 'The Neapolitan Wedding'. A prefatory sheet with explanatory notes and reference texts where applicable for each print is kept with this print. (see 1848,0108.24)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1948
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1948,0409.4.1-7
