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Couple in a landscape: P.799-1991

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Couple in a landscape
The Beginning and the End

Maker(s)

Designer: Herkomer, Hubert von
Printmaker: Dalziel family

Entities

Categories

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Henry Scipio Reitlinger, 1950, transferred from the Reitlinger Trust, 1991

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1991) by Reitlinger, Henry Scipio

Dating

Production date: AD 1872

Note

Cut from Good Words, 1872, p. 489

Letterpress on verso

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Black carbon ink

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Image Height 152 mm Width 103 mm
Sheet Height 235 mm Width 155 mm

Techniques used in production

Wood engraving

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: THE BEGINNING AND THE END.
  • Location: Upper centre
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Title
  • Text: 489
  • Location: Upper right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Number
  • Text: HH
  • Location: Image lower left
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Monogram
  • Text: DALZIEL Sc
  • Location: Image lower right
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: A wide brown moor and a blank grey sky, / And never a stirring thing; / And we two walking the very path / That we had trodden in spring.
  • Location: Lower centre
  • Method of creation: Printed

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.799-1991
Primary reference Number: 20942

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 2 March 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

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