Hope
September 30, 1800
Medium
Etching, hand colored
Dimensions
Sheet: 6 3/4 × 4 15/16 in. (17.2 × 12.5 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Flora E. Whiting, 1971
Accession Number
1971.600.17
Rights
Public Domain
Tags
About the Artist
Anonymous, British, 19th century|George Thompson · 1800–1900
**Anonymous, British, 19th century** is not the name of a single individual but a standard museum attribution used for works whose creators remain unidentified yet are clearly British and date to the 1800s. Major institutions, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, employ this designation for hundreds of drawings, prints, designs, and decorative studies that lack signatures or firm documentary ...