print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.4601
- Title
- Object: Dreaming
- Description
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A young woman shown three-quarters length, in a canopied bed wearing a thin night-gown, sleeping, her head to right, one hand slightly raised, the other fallen back at her forehead; after Dubufe.
Mixed method mezzotint
- Production date
- 1815-1845
- Dimensions
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Height: 156 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 202 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The publication line has been trimmed from this impression. According to the Lennox-Boyd database, it should read 'Paris, publié par V,,or Morlot, rue de Louvois, 2; London, published by Mc,,Lean, 26, Hay Market; new-York, published by Bailey and Ward.'
Pair to 'Awaking' (2010,7081.4601)
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2010,7081.4601
