- Title:
- Preludium. "The shadowy daughter of Urthona stood before red Orc..." (Plate 3)
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1793
- Materials & Techniques:
- Color-printed relief etching in blue ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches (36.8 x 26.7 cm), Plate: 9 1/8 x 6 1/2 inches (23.2 x 16.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in blue ink upper center: "PRELUDIUM"; in blue ink upper right: "1"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.2(3)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- branches | cave | chains | leaf | men | nudes | religious and mythological subject | roots | serpent | shackles | snake | text | trees | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3862
- Export:
- XML
- IIIF Manifest:
- JSON
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