The inn-keepers handsom daughter known through the Tyrolese by the name of the Fair Maid of the Inn / [graphic]

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Title
The inn-keepers handsom daughter known through the Tyrolese by the name of the Fair Maid of the Inn / [graphic]
Alternative Title
Inn keepers handsome daughter
Creator
Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Contributor
Carriera, Rosalba, 1675-1757, artist.
Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Published / Created
[not before 1768]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhil
Abstract

"Portrait, just more than half-length, facing front with arms folded in front of her, head tilted to right shoulder, smiling towards the viewer, wearing a dark dress and cloak around the arms, with an embroidered white shirt, a decorated cap with a widow's peak."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Additional statement of responsibility, "Faber fecit," present on earlier states of the plate; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date of publication based on publisher's street address; see British Museum online catalogue.
Publication line includes etched underscores following "John Bowles" and "No. 13" that represent areas from which previous text was burnished; the burnished text "& Son" is faintly visible above the first underscore.
Mounted on page 126 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance
Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 35.4 x 25.2 cm, on sheet 36.5 x 26.5 cm
Edition
[State 4].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1768
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Granville, Sophia Fermor Carteret, Countess, 1721-1745,
Subjects
Granville, Sophia Fermor Carteret, Countess, 1721-1745
England > London > 1768
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
12779353
Object ID (OID)
16193479

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