print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.5806
- Title
- Object: The Auld Man's Best Argument
- Description
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An elderly man sitting on the left, taking a young woman's hand and offering a bag of money, while she smiles at him coyly; a dog behind the man's chair eyes a cat standing in front of the woman; after Bouvier; with semi-filled letters.
Mixed method mezzotint
- Production date
- 1830s-1860s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 354 millimetres
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Width: 278 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Engraved also by Bouvier, according to the Lennox-Boyd database
- 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
- 2010,7081.5806