The studious fair [graphic].

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Title: The studious fair [graphic].
Contributor: Fisher, Edward, 1722-approximately 1782, publisher.
Ryland & Bryer (Firm), publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1767]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by Edwd. Fisher in Leicester Fields & by Ryland & Bryer in Cornhill
Abstract: "A young woman, three-quarter length, sitting at a table, directed to right, wearing jewels in her hair, a portrait on a ribbon around her wrist, and a fur tippet, right hand holding a quill, resting on a sheaf of papers, left elbow on a box on the table, the hand supporting her head, looking dreamily to right, lit by a table lamp to right."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from item.
Publication date inferred from dates of business of publishers.
Sitter identified in an unverified card catalog record as Peg Woffington.
Not in J.C. Smith's British mezzotinto portraits. London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883.
Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, ca. 1755 -- Lighting: lamp -- Writing implements: inkwell -- Miniatures worn as jewelry.
Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi; May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 358 x 254 mm, on sheet 370 x 270 mm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Stamps
Mezzotints England London 1767
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Woffington, Margaret, -1760,
Subject (Topic): Women
Lamps
Writing materials
Subjects: Woffington, Margaret, -1760
Women
Lamps
Writing materials
England > London > 1767
Fores, S. W. > Stamp

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