print;
advertisement
- Museum number
- 1983,U.1830
- Description
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Advertisement for the Birmingham Musical Festival, for the benefit of the General Hospital, playing 'Messiah'; with image above showing a doctor with a dying man, the doctor keeps Death away by holding his medical staff, Death shows as a nightmarish figure holding a lance between the clouds.
Etching on thin paper
- Production date
- 1805-1840 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 196 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 145 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1898
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1983,U.1830
