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Nurse's Song

Nurse's Song
1789; 1794 {hand-coloured before}
leaf 5 recto from Songs of Innocence

Medium
relief etching printed in green ink, text strengthened with blue wash, and finished with watercolour
Measurements
11.3 × 7.7 cm (image and plate) 18.9 × 13.5 cm (sheet)
Place/s of Execution
London, England
Catalogue/s Raisonné
Bentley Supplement, 139 Copy X; Erdman 1975, 24; Bindman 1978, 263; Butlin & Gott 39i
Inscription
inscribed in pencil u.r.c.: 24
Accession Number
P122.9-1988
Departments
International Prints / International Prints and Drawings
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1988
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest
Gallery location
Not on display
Subjects (general)
Human Figures Leisure, Games and Sport Literary and Text
Subjects (specific)
children (people by age group) foliation (pattern) innocence nursemaids play (recreation) poems reading (activity) text (layout feature)
Movements
Romanticism (modern European styles)