Photograph, Print, or DrawingThe Match boy
Personal name
Main title
- The Match boy [graphic].
Published/Created
- London : Published by C. Knight [?] Row, Brompton & Wilkinson, New Bond Street, 12 January 1786.
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- digital file from original http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.14344 opens in a new window
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Description
- 1 print : color, stipple engraving mounted on paper ; sheet 28 x 20.4 cm, mount 32 x 24.3 cm.
Rights advisory
- No known restrictions on publication.
LC classification
- PGA - Smith (John Raphael)--Match boy
Related names
Other Subjects
- Boys--1780-1790.
- Matches--1780-1790.
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Notes
- Title transcribed from item.
- Philadelphia Print Shop Inventory, no. 426.
- Inscribed on verso of mount: Published 1796 W.E.S.
- Poem inscribed under image: "Cupid's blind matches form by chance, Mine kindle at each amrous glance, Are damp'd by tears and sighs, Prepare with open eyes."
- Forms part of: John Rubens Smith Collection (Library of Congress).
Reproduction no./Source
- LC-DIG-pga-14344 DLC (digital file from original)
Acquisition source
- (DLC/PP-1993:213.100).
LCCN
- 2023632711
Repository
- Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print opens in a new window
Type of material
- Photograph, Print, or Drawing
Content type
- still image
Media type
- unmediated
Carrier type
- sheet
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- Not Charged