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The Lute

Maker

(artist)
1816-ca. 1863 (Life dates)

(engraver)
active 1833-1862 (Life dates)

(publisher)

Title

The Lute

Date of Production

1846

Medium

Ink on paper

Dimensions

Height: 32.8 cm
Width: 25.5 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4231.5

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: inscription : printed : centre & lower margin : : The Lute / "Then quick my own light lute I seek, / And strike the chords with loudest swell." / NATIONAL AIRS. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower left margin & recto : : [rest of inscription cut off] ed by A. Egg. //

Inscription: inscription : printed : lower right margin & recto : : Engraved by W. Egleton. //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : upper right margin & recto : later Witt inscription : WITT / LIBRARY //

Inscription: inscription : pencil : upper left margin & recto : later Witt inscription : 926/68/56 //

Inscription: inscription : stamped : lower right margin & recto : later inscription : HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H.J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928. //

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