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Object Type
Museum number: 2010,7081.2245
Title: Object: Evening
Description: Rural scene at dusk; three women on the left, one pouring milk from a pail to a churn, another carrying a barrel and rake, and a man watering three horses in pool on the right, in front of a thatched cottage; after Wheatley. 1793 Hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching
Producer name: Print made by: Joseph Barney; After: Francis Wheatley; Published by: Darling & Thompson; Published by: Mason Chamberlin II
School/style
Production date: 1793
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 477 millimetres; Width: 603 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: A pair to 'Morning' (2010,7081.2246)
Bibliographic references: Webster 1970 / Francis Wheatley (E91); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date: 2010
Acquisition notes: Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2010,7081.2245

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