drawing
- Museum number
- 1957,0221.5
- Description
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The finding of Moses, after Veronese; group of figures on the banks of the Nile, the child at left in the arms of a woman kneeling by the river, the pyramids at Giza in the distance
Pen and brown ink, with watercolour
- Production date
- 1772-1860
- Dimensions
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Height: 72 millimetres
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Width: 92 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Brooke was an illustrator and caricaturist who exhibited portraits and figure subjects at the RA from 1810-1826, but he also produced freely sketched landscapes.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1957
- 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
- 1957,0221.5