print
- Museum number
- Hh,11.53
- Description
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Meditation: sketch showing a youth sitting, turned to the left, ankles crossed, holding a book in his left hand, head resting on right hand, head turned slightly to the right and glancing at the books; in rectangular frame in imitation of a wash mount; after a drawing by Parmigianino; from Tome II of Charles Rogers 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings' (London: Printed by J. Nichols and sold by J. Boydell, 1778). 1763
Etching printed in brown
- Production date
- 1763
- Dimensions
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Height: 340 millimetres
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Width: 212 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Printed from a single plate together with Hh,11.52. For the accompanying text, see Vol.2, p.19 of the same publication. For a comment on Rogers 'Prints in Imitation of Drawings', see Hh,11.1. The original drawing is also in the collections of the British Museum, see 1947,1108.1.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: Prints in Imitation of Drawings
- Acquisition date
- 1778
- Acquisition notes
- Purchased by British Museum Trustees in 1778
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Hh,11.53
