print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7532
- Title
- Object: Rustic Hours. Night
- Description
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Simple interior, a child asleep with head on its arms on a table in front of the casement window to left, a little girl crying next to a little boy, who sits on a stool holding a cat, and two women, one in the centre lifting a blanket and looking towards the viewer while the other holds out a sleeping baby, ready to lay it in a wicker cot, in front of the hearth to right; after Wheatley. 1800
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 480 millimetres (lower edge damaged)
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Width: 580 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- One of a set, presumably of four plates (1872,0511.371; 2010,7081.7529 and 2302)
- 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
- 2010,7081.7532