print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.6866
- Title
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Object: Plate the First, Y
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Series: The Dumb Alphabet
- Description
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A young woman in Victorian dress wearing a large plumed broad-brimmed hat, shown three-quarters length standing on a terrace to right, head turned and looking towards the viewer, holding a handkerchief and making a 'Y' by placing her right forefinger at the junction between her left thumb and index finger; after Harper; with the title in semi-filled letters. 1832
Hand-coloured mezzotint and etching
- Production date
- 1832
- Dimensions
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Height: 295 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 206 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The Lennox-Boyd database records also a trimmed impression signed in pencil 'Tho.s Hayter'
For another from the series, see 2010,7081.6868
- 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
- 2010,7081.6866
