print;
newspaper/periodical
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.4937
- Title
- Object: Peter the Great Saved by His Mother
- Description
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Interior of a palace under attack, with Peter the Great and his mother on a dais on the right, the woman leaning across her son to protect him from a man holding a sword, while pointing up at an icon of the Virgin and Child hanging on the wall; after Steuben; illustration for the 'Eclectic Magazine'.
Mixed method mezzotint
- Production date
- 1823-1897
- Dimensions
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Height: 154 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 238 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The 'Eclectic Magazine of foreign literature, science and art' was published in New York by Leavitt, Trow & Co. in the 1840s.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Eclectic Magazine
- 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
- 2010,7081.4937
