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Object Type
Museum number: 2010,7081.6340
Title: Object: The Smugglers Alarmed
Description: Four men in a bare room, one emerging from a hole in the floor with a barrel, two arming themselves and the fourth looking through a peep-hole in the door, while a woman stands wringing her hands in the background to right; after Jones. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: George Sidney Hunt; After: Samuel John Egbert Jones; Published by: John Moore
School/style
Production date: 1820s-1830s (circa)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 610 millimetres; Width: 495 millimetres
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Location: Not on display
Subjects
Acquisition name
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: 2010,7081.6340

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