print;
drawing book
- Museum number
- 2013,7069.14
- Title
- Series: Coast scenes Pl 1.
- Description
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Five vignettes of coastal life: 1. sailors belonging to a revenue cutter; 2. repairing a barge rudder; 3. revenue officers watching goods that have been seized from the smugglers; 4. custom-house group; 5. custom-house officers; pl. 87 to Pyne's 'Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain' (1808), vol. II, from which the descriptions here are taken. 1804
Hand-coloured etching and aquatint
- Production date
- 1804
- Dimensions
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Height: 224 millimetres
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Width: 294 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- A faint study for no. 4, the men sitting under a tripod, is held by Prints & Drawings; see 1871,0812.1680. An uncoloured impression of this print is in the department's bound volume of Pyne's Microcosm, see 1863,0725.164 (pressmark 166.b.21). Other prints in this volume are signed as having been aquatinted by J Hill.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Microcosm: or, a picturesque delineation of the arts, agriculture, manufactures, &c. of Great Britain
- Acquisition date
- 2013
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2013,7069.14
