print; book-illustration

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Object Type: print; book-illustration
Museum number: K,58.60
Title: Object: Miss Brunton & Mr. Holman. in the characters of Palmira & Zaphna
Description: Illustration to Lowndes' New English Theatre; scene with the actors playing the characters from James Miller's 'Mahomet'; both full-length, Holman standing at right, legs astride, holding dagger aloft in left hand, wearing fur-trimmed eastern costume, and turban with feathers and crescent, his right hand seized and held back by Brunton, standing at left, wearing dress with wide overskirt, and turban with feathers and crescent, her left hand to his face; in interior with furnace in background and man standing at right in beseeching attitude. 1786 Etching and engraving with some stipple
Producer name: Print made by: James Heath; After: Thomas Stothard; Published by: Lowndes
School/style
Production date: 1786
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; engraving; stipple
Dimensions: Height: 174 millimetres; Width: 112 millimetres
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Bibliographic references
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names: Portrait of: Anne Merry; Portrait of: Joseph George Holman; Illustration to: James Miller
Associated titles: Associated Title: Mahomet; Associated Title: New English Theatre
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1818
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: K,58.60

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