print
- Museum number
- 2012,7086.3
- Title
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Object: Seeing
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Series: The Five Senses (personified by peasants)
- Description
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A man turned to left and holding up a magnifiying glass to look at a broadside pinned to the wall which shows a monkey breaking wind towards a lighted candle.
Etching
- Production date
- 1791-1796
- Dimensions
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Height: 169 millimetres
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Width: 133 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For comment on the series, see 2012,7086.1
Watermark on the present print: part of "Britannia" and date "1797"
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2012
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2012,7086.3
