- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3050.1-23
- Title
- Object: Oeuvre de Geofroi Mind de Berne recueilli de différens Cabinets particuliers
- Description
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Album containing 23 unnumbered prints of children and animals, with the same title-page, preface and 6 pages of introductory text to two different series after Mind (nos. 1-5; no. 6 and nos. 9-15); bound in brown leather pasted with blue paper, and gold stamping
Etching and aquatint, with hand-colouring, except a few lithographs (see description below):
1) Two boys with a sleigh
2) A line of dancing children
3) A group of dancing children
4) A group of eight boys playing with marbles, and a boy with a basket on his back to the left, and a boy playing with a hoop to the right
5) A group of nine children playing with spinning tops, with a woman holding a child's hand to the right, and a dog attracted by a spinning top
6) A cat, turned to the left
7) A group of twelve children playing "blind cow" (lithograph, with hand-colouring)
8) A group of eight boys with two sleighs, one of them trying to conciliate two others (lithograph, with hand-colouring)
9) A cat and a kitten drinking from a bowl
10) A cat and three kittens, one of them observing a beetle
11) Three playing kittens
12) A seated and two lying cats, one of them observing three bees in the air
13) A cat and three playing kittens
14) A cat cleaning herself
15) A cat catching a mouse
16) A cat with her two kittens playing with a dead mouse (lithograph, with hand-colouring)
17) A cat and three kittens, a ball of wool and a bowl with food to the right of the cat (lithograph, with hand-colouring)
18) A cat on a stone, being stalked by a dog (lithograph, with hand-colouring)
19) 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
20) A woman cleaning the face of a child with her apron
21) A girl with a puppet in her arms, turned to the left
22) A seated woman at a butter chum
23) A kneeling woman and a child in a child's walker, with a spinning top lying on the ground
- Production date
- 1818 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres (album)
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Height: 145 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Width: 220 millimetres
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Width: 320 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Nos. 1-6 and 9-15 are intaglio prints after Gottfried Mind published by Johann Peter Lamy in about 1818. Lonchamp suggested that Lamy published 3 series with a total of 18 plates. However, the three books kept in the Lloyd collection contain a total of 29 different intaglio prints (1958,0712.3086.1-12; 1958,0712.3087.1-12; 1958,0712.3050.1-23). Moreover, the album 1958,0712.3050.1-23 includs 5 loose prints that are blind stamped with the mark of Johann Peter Lamy and mounted on Whatman paper dated 1828 (nos. 19-23). Therefore, Lamy published at least 34 prints after drawings by Mind.
Nos. 7-8 are lithographs by Joseph Brodtmann.
Nos. 16-18 are lithographs without any lettering. They probably are from the series 'Neue Sammlung Katzen, von Mind gezeichnet, lythographiert von Brodtmann', published in 1819, see 'Zürcherisches Wochen-Blatt', Nr. 78, 27 September 1819.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1958
- Acquisition notes
- 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
- 1958,0712.3050.1-23
