File:A maiden aunt smelling fire. (BM 1948,0214.734).jpg
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A maiden aunt smelling fire. ( ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Artist |
Print made by: Thomas Rowlandson
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Title |
A maiden aunt smelling fire. |
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Description |
English: A grotesque old maid having woken at night, the open door of her bedroom behind at left, approaching the foot of a staircase with a candle, only partly dressed and with her bosom hanging outside her dress, led on by a cat; above at left, the young niece appearing at her own bedroom door as if only just awake, her lover escaping in his nightshirt up the stairs at right; at the foot of the stairs, a paper lettered 'Old maids are doomed to lead apes in hell'. 1 May 1806
Hand-coloured etching |
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Date |
1806 date QS:P571,+1806-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
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Medium | paper | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q6373 |
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Prints and Drawings |
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Accession number |
1948,0214.734 |
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Source/Photographer | https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1948-0214-734 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Permission (Reusing this file) |
© The Trustees of the British Museum, released as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
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Horizontal resolution | 300 dpi |
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Vertical resolution | 300 dpi |
Image width | 2,702 px |
Image height | 3,841 px |
Color space | sRGB |
Software used | Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (20060914.r.77) Windows |
Date and time of digitizing | 12:09, 28 June 2011 |
File change date and time | 12:12, 28 June 2011 |
Date metadata was last modified | 12:12, 28 June 2011 |