[Mrs. Collier] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Mrs. Collier] [graphic]
Creator: Watson, James, 1750-1806, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1764 and 1790]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer map & printseller, at no. 53, Fleet Street
Abstract: "Portrait of Lady Christiana Collier; seated half-length directed and with head in profile to left, looking at dead bird on table; wearing loose robe over light dress with sash and flower at breast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: "Passer mortuus est meae puellae, passer delitae meae puellae; quem plus illa oculis suis amabat. Catullus."--Quotation beneath image.
Title from previous owner in pencil below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6397.
Place of publication taken from end of publication statement.
Mounted on leaf numbered 38 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 225 x 325 mm, on sheet 265 x 390 mm
Language: English

Access: Public
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