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Print

ca. 1865 (made)
Artist/Maker
Dalziel Brothers (engravers)
Bennett, Charles Henry (artist)
Place of origin
Great Britain (made)

Portrait format black and white wood engraving of a young man in military uniform, showing the different stages of his escape from prison. He is shown unchaining himself, cutting through the bars of a window, trying to escape through the window but being pulled back by guards, and finally making himself very thin and squeezing out through the keyhole.


Object details

Categories
Prints
Drawings
Books
Object type
Print
Materials and techniques
wood engraving
Paper
Wood Engraving
Brief description
Print of a young soldier escaping from prison, from the book The Surprising, Unheard Of and Never-To-Be-Surpassed Adventures of Young Munchausen: In Twelve Stories, engraved by the Dalziel Brothers from an illustration by Charles Henry Bennett, Great Britain, ca. 1865
Physical description
Portrait format black and white wood engraving of a young man in military uniform, showing the different stages of his escape from prison. He is shown unchaining himself, cutting through the bars of a window, trying to escape through the window but being pulled back by guards, and finally making himself very thin and squeezing out through the keyhole.
Dimensions
  • Height: 6in
  • Width: 4in
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
Credit line
Given by Mr Harold Hartley
Object history
Illustrated frontispiece for the book The Surprising, Unheard Of and Never-To-Be-Surpassed Adventures of Young Munchausen: In Twelve Stories by Charles H. Bennett, first published in 1865.
Subjects depicted
Escape
Soldiers
Prison
Keyhole
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum, Department of Engraving, Illustration and Design and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1929, London: Board of Education, 1930.
  • The Surprising, Unheard Of and Never-To-Be-Surpassed Adventures of Young Munchausen: Related and Illustrated by C. H. Bennett in Twelve "Stories" London and New York: Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1865 This illustration was the frontispiece of the book.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.528-1929

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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