The mercenary Maria ; The ardent lover. [graphic]

Description

Title: The mercenary Maria ; The ardent lover. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Ardent lover
Published / Created: [1792?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames of subjects identified by the British Museum catalogue in the original publication as Capt. Roper (No. 3) and a Miss F-----m, a London courtesan (No. 2).
Description: Titles from text below images.
Reissue of a tête-à-tête published in Town and Country magazine, August 1777 (ix, 345), with different titles and plate numbers.
Variant state of No. 5417 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v.5.
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 10.6 x 18 cm, on sheet 13 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Periodical illustrations
Etchings England London 1792
Stipple engravings England London 1792
Material: stipple engraving & etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London > 1792

Access: Public
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