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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.4606
Title: Object: The Forsaken
Description: A young woman, shown three-quarters length, sitting facing right on the edge of bed, looking ahead, distraught, clutching a note in her lap, in both hands; night landscape seen beyond a pillar in the background; after Dubufe; with open letters. Mixed method mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: George Maile; After: Claude Marie Dubufe; Published by: Victor Morlot; Published by: Thomas McLean; Published by: Bailly, Ward & Co
School/style: British; French
Production date: 1815-1845
Production place: Published in: London (England); Published in: New York (city); Published in: Paris (France)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint; mixed method
Dimensions: Height: 192 millimetres (trimmed?); Width: 203 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Location: Not on display
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
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: 2010,7081.4606

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