[The reading Magdalen] [graphic]

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Description

Title
[The reading Magdalen] [graphic]
Creator
Ward, William, 1766-1826, printmaker
Contributor
Correggio, 1489?-1534, artist.
Seydelmann, Jakob Crescentius, 1750-1829, artist.
Poggi, A. C. de, publisher.
Published / Created
[ca. 1792]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
A.C. de Poggi
Abstract

"A young woman lying on her front on the ground, in loose drapery with an ointment jar beside her, reading from a large volume, propped up on right elbow, her hand to her forehead, twined in long golden curls, hanging loose over her shoulder, in a leafy leandscape."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from British Museum online catalogue.
Possibly a proof state before Bible verse added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1837,0408.139.
Publication information from imprint on British Museum impression: London, Published Jany. 1, 1792, by A.C. de Poggi, St. George's Row, Hyde Park.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with possible loss of text from bottom edge.
Mounted on page 167 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 : sheet 28.3 x 41 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 4

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Mezzotints England London 1792
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Mary Magdalene, Saint,
Subject (Topic)
Reading
Saints
Subjects
Mary Magdalene, Saint
Reading
Saints
England > London > 1792
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12803790
Object ID (OID)
16193516

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