print;
newspaper/periodical(?)
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.6995
- Title
- Object: Henrietta, Queen of England, in Concealment
- Description
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Queen Henrietta hiding in a barn, with her daughter clinging to her and a boy kneeling on the right, while a man by the door on the left keeps watch and warns them to keep silent while Cromwellian soldiers pass by outside; after Desmoulins.
Mezzotint with etching
- Production date
- 1840s-1850s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 156 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 217 millimetres (trimmed?)
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- Curator's comments
- Probably an illustration to a newspaper or periodical. The format is the same as that for 'Sartain's Magazine' published 1849-52
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated events
- Associated Event: English Civil War 1642-1651
- 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
- 2010,7081.6995
