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Museum number: 2010,7081.856
Title: Object: The Bridegrooms Gift
Description: Elegant interior, where a young man steps forward to give a bag of money to his fiancée, who stands on the left, while another man sits in the right foreground pointing at them, a dog by his chair, an older woman watches from behind to left and another young woman examines a ribbon behind the bridegroom; doorway to another room behind her; after Eisen. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Charles Spooner; After: Charles Eisen; Published by: John Bowles
School/style: British; French
Production date: 1735-1767
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 355 millimetres; Width: 253 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Evidently a copy from a French print
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
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: 2010,7081.856

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