Weep, Thaly Weep! [graphic]

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Title: Weep, Thaly Weep! [graphic]
Creator: Bartolozzi, Francesco, 1727-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Foote, Samuel, 1720-1777.
Published / Created: [1778]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Illustration that appears on "Title-page to 'An Elegy on the Death of Samuel Foote, Esq.' by Boschereccio (London: George Kearsley, 1778) In a landscape; portrait head in profile to left, in an oval medallion, on ground at foot of a tree; to left, Thalia, Muse of comedy and idyllic poetry, seated on rocks, looking at the medallion and weeping; to left, shadow of Foote being led to a boat by Mercury; in foreground, a head buried in ground."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from image.
Sheet trimmed, resulting in loss of lettering.
For full impression of title page, Cf. British Museum registration no. 1897,1231.189.
On page numbered 25 in an album of 116 prints: [Bartolozzi and his pupils].
Provenance: Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Holland Brothers, Birmingham; March 1958.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 10.6 x 12 cm, on sheet 12.3 x 16 cm
Edition: [3rd state].
Language: English

Access: Public
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