[Old maid] [graphic]

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Title: [Old maid] [graphic]
Creator: Livesay, Richard, -1823?, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
King, Thomas, active 1781-1822, publisher.
Published / Created: [October 1788]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published Octr. 1788 by Thos. King, New Bond Street
Abstract: Detail of the left portion of the first design for William Hogarth's A rake's progress: a older woman with signs of syphilis pox on her face, holds a fan to her face as she reaches with her left hand towards the right
Description: Title supplied by curator.
On page 209 in volume 3.
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 : plate mark 16 x 13.5 cm, on sheet 20.5 x 15 cm
Language: English

Genre: Etchings England London 1788
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Syphilis
Single women
Subjects: Syphilis
Single women
England > London > 1788
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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