Mrs. Abington [graphic]

Description

Title: Mrs. Abington [graphic]
Creator: Wilson, James, active 1760-1780, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1768 and 1786]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Mrs. Abington after Reynolds (Mannings 28); standing three-quarter length to front, resting her left arm on a draped block (the pedestal of a statue of the Comic Muse), head inclined to left, eyes to front; wearing floral gown, sash and her hair up; plain background
Description: Title from caption below image.
First state, without numbering '133'. See J.C. Smith.
Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue.
Mrs. Abington, comic actress, born and worked London and Dublin. Began as a flower seller and domestic servant.
Mounted on leaf numbered 1 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm.
Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Provenance: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss to Yale University Library; to Farmington February 1954. Purchased from Charles Scribner's Sons, 3 March 1903 by Mrs. G.T. Bliss.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 351 x 250 mm, on sheet 392 x 272 mm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1768
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Abington, Mrs. 1737-1815, (Frances Barton),
Subject (Topic): Actresses
British
Subjects: Abington, Mrs. (Frances Barton), 1737-1815
Actresses > British
England > London > 1768

Access: Public
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