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Object Type
Museum number: 2010,7081.3901
Title: Object: Hop Pickers
Description: A young couple sitting in front of a hut, the woman holding a hop-pole, with three children to left filling a basket, a boy standing behind them, and another approaching with a hop-pole in the background; after Westall. 1792 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: William Ward; After: Richard Westall; Published by: Emmanuel Matthias Diemar
School/style
Production date: 1792
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 328 millimetres; Width: 393 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: Frankau 1904 / Eighteenth Century Artists and Engravers: William Ward A.R.A. and James Ward R.A. (160.II); 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
Subjects
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: 2010,7081.3901

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