Miss Kitty Fischer in the character of Cleopatra [graphic]

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Title: Miss Kitty Fischer in the character of Cleopatra [graphic]
Creator: Fisher, Edward, 1722-approximately 1782, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Bowles, Thomas, -1767, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1752 and 1763]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Thos. Bowles in St. Paul's Church Yard & Jno. Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Abstract: "Portrait of Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra dissolving the pearl after Reynolds (Mannings 612); half-length seated to left, face almost in profile, with chalice in her left hand and pearl in her right; wearing pearl-trimmed dress and coronet."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1849,0328.16.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on leaf numbered 16 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 250 x 357 mm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Access: Public
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