Contentment [graphic]

Description

Title: Contentment [graphic]
Creator: Jones, John, 1766 or 1767-1795, printmaker
Contributor: Samuel, Richard, -1787, artist.
Wilkinson, Robert, -approximately 1825, publisher.
Published / Created: [4 September 1780]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published as the act directs, Septr. 4, 1780 by R. Wilkinson, No. 58, Cornhill
Abstract: "Portrait, bust in a feigned oval frame directed to left, looking to left, dark hair loose around the shoulders, wearing a turban with a feather and a loose, low-cut silk gown with an eastern shawl draped around the shoulders, fastened with a brooch and braid at the breast."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Mounted on leaf numbered 24 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm, Ms. notes written in pencil below title in unknown hand.
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 187 x 255 mm, on sheet 225 x 295 mm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1780
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London > 1780
18th century

Access: Public
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