printing-block;
book-illustration;
drawing
- Museum number
- 1992,0406.414
- Title
- Object: I Leaned out of the Window
- Description
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A starry landscape with a woman leaning from the window of a house on the left; trees and stars are reflected in water below. Illustration for 'Seven Times Three: Love' in Jean Ingelow, 'Songs of Seven' (Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1866).
Drawn in 1864 or before; published 1866
Unengraved woodblock
White bodycolour, ink and pencil on boxwood block
- Production date
- 1864
- Dimensions
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Height: 123 millimetres
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Thickness: 22 millimetres
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Width: 102 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Catalogued by Bethan Stevens (University of Sussex) in partnership with the British Museum and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC); digital photography by Sylph Editions, London (www.sylpheditions.com).
The inscription 'Dalziel' on the reverse is in a hand from the Dalziel office. This un-used block was replaced by another, which was engraved and used in the publication.
For a proof impression see the Dalziel Archive volume XIX, ref. no. 1913,0415.180, no. 565; for the published book see ref. no. 1992,0406.139.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2022 17 May - 4 Sept BM, 90A Woodpecking Factory: Dalziel
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Songs of Seven
- Acquisition date
- 1992
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1992,0406.414