book;
print
- Museum number
- 1958,0712.3087.1-12
- Title
- Object: Oeuvre de Geofroi Mind de Berne recueilli de différens Cabinets particuliers
- Description
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Book containing 12 prints of animals, with a title-page, a preface and 6 pages of introductory text; half-bound in brown leather with green paper-covered boards, with gold stamping and a label with the title on the front cover, Bern and Basel
Etching and aquatint, with hand-colouring:
1) A boy balancing a bag on his head
2) A child riding a goat which is driven by another child with a stick
3) 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
4) A child in a baby's chair keeping away a spoon and a biscuit from a dog eating from his plate
5) A boy carrying a rabbit
6) A cat seated on a base
7) A child sitting at a wall, holding a child in his arms
8) A child sitting on a timber fence
9) A woman washing cloths in a tub placed on a bench, and three children playing with a tub, a child writhing on the ground
10) A cat and three playing kittens
11) Playing children, and a woman with a child in her arms
12) A group of eight children playing ring-a-ring-a-roses, and two children to the left, one of them sitting on a tree trunck, and a dog watching the scene
- Production date
- 1818 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 135 millimetres (approx. size of image)
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Height: 255 millimetres (book)
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Width: 200 millimetres
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Width: 325 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The date is given according to Lonchamp.
- 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
- 1958,0712.3087.1-12
