print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.5732
- Title
- Object: My Child! My Child!
- Description
-
Survivors of a shipwreck; a woman in the sea, holding her child up above the waves with both hands; broken mast in the right foreground and moon overhead. 1830
Colour mezzotint with additional hand-colouring and varnish
- Production date
- 1830
- Dimensions
-
Height: 130 millimetres (trimmed to image)
-
Width: 162 millimetres (trimmed to image)
- $Inscriptions
-
- Curator's comments
- The Lennox-Boyd database cites the inscription from a complete impression: 'My Child! My Child. // Drawn & Engraved by H. Dawe. // No. 7 // London, Published by H. Dawe, 6, Bartholomoew Place, Kentish Town. // R. Ackerman Strand & C. Tilt Fleet Str.t, September 1st,, 1830.'
Apparently from a series (2010,7081.4790-4806, 4833-4837 and 5729-5743)
- 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
- 2010,7081.5732
