Beauty's tribute [graphic]

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Title: Beauty's tribute [graphic]
Alternative Title: Miss Cooper
Creator: Faithorne, William, ca. 1669-1703, printmaker
Contributor: Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, artist.
Cooper, Edward, -1725, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1689 and 1703]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by W. Herbert at the Golden Globe on London Bridge
Abstract: Portrait said to be of Elizabeth Cooper, a young girl seated in a landscape with a black page boy offering grapes..--British Museum online catalogue
Description: "Beauty commands submission as it's due, nor is't the slave alone that owns this true, much fairer youths shall this tribute pay, none fate deplore, but thankfully obey."--Verse in four lines in two columns either side of the title.
Title from J.C. Smith: Miss Cooper.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,0214.279.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted on leaf numbered 39 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 258 x 347 mm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Access: Public
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