print;
music sheet/cover
- Museum number
- 2005,1030.31
- Title
- Object: Le Néophyte
- Description
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Music title sheet with lettering surrounding a vignette of monks seated on benches arranged in two rows; each monk displays a different expression; among them, emphasized with light, a young monk looking towards viewer. c.1875
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1877-1880
- Dimensions
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Height: 160 millimetres
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Width: 205 millimetres (image only)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The music was inspired by a painting by Doré, of which a large etching by him is in the BM. Doré was then commissioned to make another version of his composition to decorate the title of the song sheet.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2005
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2005,1030.31