print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1977,U.1452.+
- Title
- Object: Fairy Connoisseurs Inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's Collection of Drawings
- Description
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Frontispiece to a projected catalogue of the collection of drawings, prints, etc. belonging Frederick Locker: framed drawings and other works of art arranged informally in a room in Locker's house at 15 Victoria Street, London, with fairies dressed appropriately as Italian, German and English connoisseurs. 1868
Etching
- Production date
- 1868
- Dimensions
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Height: 250 millimetres
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Width: 353 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Drawings illustrated include Michelangelo's Adam and Hogarth's Wilkes both later acquired by the British Museum.
The print was used in 1886 as the frontispiece to "The Rowfant Library", a catalogue of Locker's collection.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1891
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1977,U.1452.+
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1891,1116.179