The fair nun unmask'd [graphic]Wilson, James, approximately 1735-approximately 1786, printmakerpublish'd as the act directs, A.D. 1769.engIn 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 breastTitle 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.