The fair nun unmask'd [graphic]

Description

Title: The fair nun unmask'd [graphic]
Alternative Title: Fair nun unmasked
Creator: Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmaker
Contributor: Morland, Henry, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: publish'd as the act directs, A.D. 1769.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: In an oval frame, a half-length portrait of woman with a black veil over her head looks left. In her right hand she holds a mask; around her neck is cross. She wears pearl earrings, pearls in her hair, and a strand hangs from the jeweled rose at her breast
Description: Title engraved below image.
Printmaker identified in Chaloner Smith who based his description on the 1780 copy published by Sayer.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Plate numbered '8' in lower left corner.
Two lines of verse below title: On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore ... Pope.
Reversed copy of this print was published in 1780.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Temporary local subject terms: Female costume: masquerade dress -- Allusion to 'The Fair Nun' -- Literature: quotation from The rape of the lock, canto ii.7, by Alexander Pope, 1688-1744.
Watermark.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; October 1959;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 354 x 250 mm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England 1769
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Accessories (Clothing & dress)
Dancers
Jewelry
Masks
Masquerades
Subjects: Accessories (Clothing & dress)
Dancers
Jewelry
Masks
Masquerades
England > 1769

Access: Public
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