print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.5924
- Title
- Object: Caxton shewing the first Specimen of his Printing to King Edward the Fourth
- Description
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Caxton standing in a vaulted room, behind a printing press, showing a freshly printed sheet to the King who stands wtih his wife and family to left of centre, accompanied by clerics and soldiers; the room is cluttered with apprentices and other workers, papers, books and printing equipment, with men binding on the left and others setting type on the right; papers are hanging from lines strung across the room, and pasted to the columns; after Maclise; open-letter state. 1858
Mixed method
- Production date
- 1858 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 683 millimetres
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Width: 1038 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Declared to the Printsellers' Association, 1858. Published by Henry Graves & Co
- 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
- 2010,7081.5924
