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The Rival Sisters

Maker

(artist)
1815-1881

(engraver)
1791-1857

(publisher)

Title

The Rival Sisters

Date of Production

1846

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 33 cm
Width: 26.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4231.3

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Notes

Illustration from Finden's Beauties of Moore, about 1846-7.

Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower margin, printed: The Rival Sisters. / "Then remember, whenever your goblet is crown'd, / Through this world, whether eastward or westward you roam, / When a cup to the smile of dear woman goes round, / Oh, remember the smile that adorns her at home!"; lower left margin, printed: Painted by A. Elmore. A.R.A; lower right margin, printed: Engraved by E. Finden; upper right margin and lower left margin, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY; lower left margin, pen: A. ELMORE; upper left margin, pencil [later Witt inscription]: 926/68/58; lower right margin, stamped: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H.J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928.

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