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Mony a sweet babe fatherless, and mony a widow mourning

Maker

(artist)
1820-1902

(engraver)

Title

Mony a sweet babe fatherless, and mony a widow mourning

Medium

Steel engraving

Dimensions

Height: 15.4 cm
Width: 20.1 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.4247.1

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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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Recto: lower left margin, printed: John Faed R.S.A delt.

Inscription: Recto: lower right margin, printed: Henry Lemon sculpt.

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, printed: ....."mony a sweet babe fatherless,/ And mony a widow mourning."

Inscription: Recto: lower centre margin, handwritten in pen: J. FAED

Inscription: Recto: upper left margin, handwritten in pencil: 917/21(61)

Stamp: Recto: right margin, stamped: WITT / LIBRARY

Stamp: Recto: lower centre margin, stamped: HAMPSTEAD PUBLIC LIBRARIES / LOCAL COLLECTION. / H.J. CORNISH COLLECTION. / 1928.

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