Practice [graphic]
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11128649
Description
- Title
- Practice [graphic]
- Creator
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, printmaker
- Contributor
- Heath, Henry, active 1824-1850, artist.
- Published / Created
- [not before 1827]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"An enthusiastic young man practising fencing at a target on a door, accidentally having pierced the door and struck a servant behind it, whose tea tray falls to the floor; another young man playing a flute at a table looks over in surprise; a fencing book lying on the floor, sporting prints or other pictures on the wall behind, including two of a black and a white boxer."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1985,0119.312.
One of a series of "Arithmetic" plates by Henry Heath, some of which have William Cole's July 1827 imprint in lower left. This is perhaps a later state with imprint burnished from plate.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires. - Provenance
- Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. xviii.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 20 x 26 cm, on sheet 22 x 28 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 826.00.00.50
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Satires (Visual works) England 1827
Etchings England London 1827 - Material
- etching ; and wove paper hand-colored.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
-
Fencing
Daggers & swords
Servants
Accidents - Subjects
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Fencing
Daggers & swords
Servants
Accidents
England > 1827
England > London > 1827
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9670345
- Object ID (OID)
- 11128649