COLLECTION NAME:
Wetmore Print Collection
Record
Filename:
FW-0042a.jpg
Creator:
BEWICK, Thomas
Creation Date:
1750-1799 or 1800-1849
Primary Creation Century:
18th Century
Secondary Creation Century:
19th Century
Title:
37 small prints
Object Type:
print
Medium:
wood engraving on yellow China paper
Donor:
Fannie Wetmore, 1928
Dimensions:
5.08 or 7.62 height, 7.62 or 8.89 width
Descriptive Notes:
Either from the "History of Quadrupeds",Select Fables or Aesop's Fables.See:The Bewick Collector..by T.Hugo,Copy of Bewick's letter to Roundtree.Dealer,F.T.Sabin,1895
Primary Subject:
animals
Secondary Subject:
figures
Comments:
FAesop's Fables, A History of British Birds,Separate records or sub records for each print is advised.country life, manners & customs, allegories, families, domestic life, social values, religion, children, older people, women, men, animals, cats, dogs, greyhounds, horses, houses, owls, hunting, barrels, birds, foxes, rabbits, construction, cattle, oceans, bridges, ships, architecture, farms, 9 mats with 37 prints total
Box Number:
Box05 print 10 to print 18
