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Object Type
Museum number: 2010,7081.6545
Description: Gilbert à Becket and the Saracen Maiden; a crusader in prison, sitting in the right foreground and looking up gratefully at a young woman in oriental dress, who looks furtively over her shoulder while a black man kneels down to unchain the prisoner; another woman keeps look-out by a barred window in the background to left; after Casey; with production details only. 1852 Mixed method on chine collé
Producer name: Print made by: William Carlos; After: John Archibald Casey; Published by: Mary Parkes; Printed by: W Hatton
School/style
Production date: 1852
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 652 millimetres; Width: 553 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: The Lennox-Boyd database records also a state with artists' names added: 'Painted by H.H. Emmerson. // Engraved by J.J. Chant.'
Location: Not on display
Subjects: prison; black
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: 2010,7081.6545

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