Miss D-n Le Comte des Lunettes. [graphic]

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Title: Miss D-n Le Comte des Lunettes. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Miss Dawson
Comte des Lunettes
Published / Created: Sepr. 1, 1777.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the Act directs by A. Hamilton Junr. ...
Abstract: Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of a Miss Dawson (on the left and numbered 22), and her alleged lover on the right, the spectacle-wearing Earl of Peterborough, (numbered 23).
Description: Title from item.
Place of publication from Plomer's Dictionaries of printers and booksellers, page 316.
From the "Histories of the téte-à-téte annexed" in the Town and Country Magazine, 1777 p. 401.
Subjects identified in the British Museum catalogue.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 104 x 176 mm, on sheet 13 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Periodical illustrations
Stipple engravings England London 1777
Engravings England London 1777
Etchings England London 1777
Material: etching, engraving & stipple engraving ;
Subject (Name): Dawson, Miss.
Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, 1708-1779.
Subjects: Dawson, Miss
Peterborough, Charles Mordaunt, Earl of, 1708-1779
England > London > 1777

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