print;
bookplate
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.28
- Description
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Bookplate of Oscar Browning, showing two young women in classical dress, one of them seated at right on a bench under a tree, reading a book, the other standing beside her at left with her back turned towards the viewer, holding onto the branches; church in background; after Simeon Solomon; proof. 1870
Wood-engraving printed on thin paper
- Production date
- 1870
- Dimensions
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Height: 117 millimetres (image)
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Width: 80 millimetres (image)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression see 1915,1026.10.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Acquisition notes
- According to a note in De Beaumont's hand on an envelope in which the bookplate was formerly kept, he had purchased it from Nial Devitt in 1990 for £32; Devitt traded as a bookdealer from the 1970s onwards.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.28
