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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.5849
Title: Object: The Undying One
Description: Portrait of Caroline Norton; a young woman in exotic Victorian dress and jewelled headband, sitting looking to left, one hand resting on a lyre beside her, the other fingering a long necklace with the elbow on a table beside books; curtain and view through an archway to a colonnade in the background; illustration to the poem by Caroline Norton, after Parris; open-letter state. Mixed method mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Charles Bromley; After: Edmund Thomas Parris; Published by: John McCormick
School/style: British
Production date: 1830s (circa)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint; mixed method
Dimensions: Height: 685 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 448 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Associated names: Illustration to: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton; Portrait of: Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
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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: 2010,7081.5849

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