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Object Type
Museum number: Mm,15.184
Title: Object: Wobourn Sheepshearing
Description: 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
Producer name: Print made by: M N Bate; Print made by: Joseph Constantine Stadler; Print made by: Thomas Morris; After: George Garrard; Published by: George Garrard
School/style
Production date: 1811
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: etching; aquatint
Dimensions: Height: 545 millimetres; Width: 792 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Not in Abbey
Location: Not on display
Subjects: fair; attendant
Associated names: Portrait of: William IV, King of the United Kingdom; Portrait of: Francis Russell, 7th Duke of Bedford
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

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