print
- Museum number
- Mm,15.184
- Title
- Object: Wobourn Sheepshearing
- Description
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Sheep-shearing, in a pen on the right in front of a row of large trees extending backwards, prize carcasses hung on the side of the Exhibition Hall in the background, erected by Francis Duke of Bedford, with portraits of several attendant dignitaries, identified by a detailed key below, including the Duke of Clarence with the garter star talking on the left, Bedford, on horseback in the centre, and an artist selling model cows on the far left 'to commemorate the encouragement given by the late & present Dukes of Bedford to the Art of modelling Cattle': proof. 1811
Etching and aquatint on chine collé
- Production date
- 1811
- Dimensions
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Height: 545 millimetres
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Width: 792 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Not in Abbey
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1837 (before)
- Acquisition notes
- For the traditional provenance from Sarah Banks, see Mm,15.1
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Mm,15.184
