Rural life. [graphic] / Plate 2

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Title: Rural life. [graphic] / Plate 2
Creator: Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Mercier, Philip, 1689?-1760, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1746 and 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Abstract: A pretty young woman stands beneath a tree spinning wool from a spindle
Description: Title engraved below image.
Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See: Bénézit. Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... [New ed.] , v. 11, page 302.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogure, registration no.: 1874,0613.2661.
Imperfect; text "Plate 2" following title has been mostly erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. iii.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.3 x 11.5 cm, on sheet 20 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints England 1746
Mezzotints England London 1746
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Spinning
Spinning apparatus
Wool
Young adults
Subjects: Spinning
Spinning apparatus
Wool
Young adults
England > 1746
England > London > 1746

Access: Public
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