Filial piety [graphic]

Description

Title: Filial piety [graphic]
Creator: Daniell, James, printmaker
Contributor: Koster, Simon de, 1767-1831, artist.
Brydon, John, active 1783-1806, publisher.
Published / Created: [23 May 1796]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published May 23d, 1796, by I. Brydon, at his Print & Looking Glass Warehouse, Charing Cross
Abstract: "A young woman holding a baby, sitting on a step in a prison cell, giving her imprisoned father milk from her breast, right arm around his neck as he sits chained to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
Imperfect; sheet mutilated on bottom edge with minor loss of text from statement of responsibility and imprint statement. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Text below title: Reddiditque vitam quam receperat. She gave back that life which she had received. Martial.
Text below image, on either side of title: Dedicated to his Excellency Count Dezborodko, privy counsellor of her Imperial Majesty the Empress of all the Russias &c. &c.
Mounted on modern secondary support.
Provenance: The Print Room; March 1998;
Extent: 1 print : sheet 65.6 x 51 cm
Language: English

Genre: Mezzotints England London 1796
A la poupée prints England London 1796
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper à la poupée.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London > 1796

Access: Public
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