portfolio;
print;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3014.1-21
- Title
- Object: Album ou recueil précieux de dessins originaux faits par le célébre Geofroi Mind, Crétin né à Berne en 1768, et mort le 7 Novembre 1814.
- Description
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A collection of 25 inlaid drawings after Gottfried Mind; kept together in leporello binding in a portfolio of red leather with gold stamping and a title on the clasp
Watercolours, except for a few aquatints (see description below):
1) Title-page with an oval portrait of Gottfried Mind
2) A girl with a bread in her left hand, turned to the right
3) A girl with a puppet in her arms, turned to the right
4) A man holding a child in the air
5) A woman cleaning the face of a child with her apron
6) A woman with a baby in her arms on a wooden chair, next to the chair a bowl; to the right of the woman a boy feeding two chickens
7) A family seen from behind; a woman with a basket on her head and a man with a stick and a basket on his back and a child on his shoulders, and five children, one carrying an object on his head and another with a shouldered pan, and a dog to the right
8) A cat, turned to the left (aquatint, with hand-colouring)
9) Two fighting bears
10) A woman seated on a bench peeling apples, with a boy standing right next to her, and a hen picking peelings fallen to the ground
11) Two woman sitting on a stone bench, one of them patching a piece of cloth
12) A woman at a butter chum, with a child standing next to her
13) A child riding a goat which is driven by another child with a stick
14) A seated bear, turned to the left
15) A cat seated on a base (aquatint, with hand-colouring)
16) A woman washing cloths in a tub placed on a bench, and three children playing with a tub, a child writhing on the ground
17) A woman holding a child walking behind three hens
18) Two boys with a sleigh (aquatint, with hand-colouring)
19) Four boys with a toy gun and a hoop
20) A cat catching a mouse (aquatint, with hand-colouring)
21) A cat and a dog fighting for bones (aquatint, with hand-colouring)
- Production date
- 1783-1818 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 265 millimetres (portfolio)
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Width: 210 millimetres
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Width: 335 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This album contains a mixture of watercolours, probably after rather than by Mind, and hand-coloured prints after his designs.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- 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.
UNDER THE TERMS OF THE BEQUEST, NONE OF THE PRINTS OR DRAWINGS BEQUEATHED BY R. W. LLOYD MAY BE LENT OUTSIDE THE BRITISH MUSEUM (Registration Numbers 1958,0712.318 to 3149).
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1958,0712.3014.1-21
