[L'enfant trouvé] [graphic]

Description

Title: [L'enfant trouvé] [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Spencer, Lavinia, Countess, 1762-1831, artist.
Published / Created: [4 April 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd as the Act directs April 4th, 1785, by Sus. Vivares, No. 13 Great Newport Street
Abstract: "Two young women holding an infant between them, looking down at it affectionately, the one on the right turned three-quarters from the viewer; in an oval; after Lady Spencer."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description: Title from later state in the British Museum.
Early state lacking title. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3320.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf 11 of volume 12 of 12.
Provenance: From a collection in twelve volumes probably compiled by Francis Harvey and sold at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 16.1 x 17.5 cm, on sheet 25.0 x 25.0 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Genre: Amateur works
Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1785
Material: stipple engraving with roulette ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Women
Infants
Subjects: Women
Infants
England > London > 1785
Riviere & Son > Binding
Auchincloss, Hugh Dudley > Ownership
Harvey, Francis > Ownership

Access: Public
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