print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.608
- Title
- Object: Earth
- Description
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A couple in a garden, the man on the right on a garden step, holding a rake and handing flowers to the girl, who puts them in her apron; a dog between them, flower-pot to right, basket of flowers in the foreground and trees in the background; from a set of the Elements; after Amiconi.
Hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1730s-1742 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- From a set of four (2010,7081.605-608)
It is almost certainly the set listed for John Simon by Chaloner Smith and Le Blanc (191), without further details. There may be an earlier state for the plates with Simon's fecit: an annotation in the departmental copy of CS lists an impression of Fire inscribed 'Simon invent. // Simon fecit.'
- 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
- 2010,7081.608