Elizabeth Adams [graphic].

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Title: Elizabeth Adams [graphic].
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd according to the act of Parliam[...] [not before 1738]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Elizabeth Adams, three-quarter length, seated to left, holding a notebook titled "Repenting sins", shown with both hands on her lap, wearing bonnet and plain dress. Adams was a criminal who was hanged for robbery in 1738. Resemblance to a figure in William Hogarth's Harlot's Progress, plate 6; and tentatively attributed to him in the British Museum catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of the end of the publication statement.
On page 63 in volume 1. Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand beneath print: See Nichols's Book, 3d edit. p. 194.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.8 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1740
Material: etching ;
Subject (Topic): Criminals
Women
Subjects: Criminals
Women
18th century
England > London > 1740
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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