print;
transparency(?)
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.7644
- Title
- Object: The Extinguisher
- Description
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An old man, a miser, wearing a wig and spectacles, sitting at a table lit by a single candle, counting his money, oblivious to the skeletal figure which looms behind him on the right, one hand on an orb of light surrounding the man like a large candle-snuffer, about to shut out the light; after Dance. 1806
Aquatint
- Production date
- 1806
- Dimensions
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Height: 267 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 202 millimetres (trimmed)
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Possibly intended for hand-colouring as a transparency print
- 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
- 2010,7081.7644