Category
Art / Prints
Date
Unknown
Materials
Paper
Measurements
Each piece (min) - 42 mm (width); 17 mm (height), Each piece (max) - 76 mm (width); 76 mm (height)
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Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 666754
Summary
Eight assorted printed pictures, some with text or text only. They comprise the following. A printed line drawing of a man and a woman in 17th century costume. The man wears a cloak, breeches and a hat. An oval containing the upper half of a young girl with her arms raised above her head. She wears a dark coloured sash around her waist. A pen and ink drawing, hand coloured, of a woman wearing a long brown dress. There are two dogs at her feet both wearing hats, one dressed in blue, the other in pink. Another dog, dressed in pink, is held by the woman under her right arm. In her left hand she holds a whip. An oval containing the profiles of two figures. The figure in the foreground reveals his back partially covered in drapery to the spectator, he wears a laurel wreath. The other is a female profile. A printed, hand coloured, caricature of a schoolmaster wearing a mortar board and smoking a pipe. A piece of handwritten text in black ink, which reads as follows 'Which has most legs, a Horse or no Horse'. A hand coloured print of a young girl in a red dress running away from a figure wearing an animal skin. Above and below this image is printed 'Bonbon d'Amathonte. Le petit loup des bois'. The picture is accompanied by a seperate sheet of paper on which is printed the following text 'Le petit loup des bois, Colinette un jour dans le bois, Alla se promener seulette; L'Amour arme de son Carquois, Sitot courut sur la pauvrette.' Total number of items is 8.