Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner [graphic]

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Title: Domestick amusement. The lovely spinner [graphic]
Alternative Title: Domestic amusement
Lovely spinner
Creator: Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Heilmann, Johann Kaspar, 1718-1760, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [1764]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Abstract: A young woman seated in a caned armchair with cushions, directed to right, wearing a frilled cap, a dark apron over her gown with long sleeves and ruffles at the elbow, spinning and glancing at the viewer; a fireplace with a work bag hanging a fire screen in front of it, to the right; an urn on the mantel piece with a mirror on the wall, curtains behind on right and left; after Heilmann
Description: Title from caption etched below image.
Date from unverified card catalog.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress.
Watermark.
Provenance: Print Shop; November 1958;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 35.4 x 25.3 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1764
Watermarks (Paper)
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Chairs
Fireplaces
Interiors
Mirrors
Purses
Sewing equipment & supplies
Spinning
Spinning apparatus
Young adults
Subjects: Chairs
Fireplaces
Interiors
Mirrors
Purses
Sewing equipment & supplies
Spinning
Spinning apparatus
Young adults
England > London > 1764

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