print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7287
- Title
- Object: Courtship
- Description
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A modest interior, with a young man standing by the hearth, wearing a decorated waistcoat, scratching his head awkwardly, with a young woman sitting beside him in front of the hearth, next to a spinning wheel, looking down and holding a rose, with the girl's parents by the door to left, talking to another young man; after Clayter.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1801-1846 (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 343 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 255 millimetres (trimmed?)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The initial 'J' appears to be an error for 'T'.
- 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
- 2010,7081.7287