Shepherdess [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Shepherdess [graphic]
- Creator
- Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
- Contributor
- Pickering, Henry, active 1700-1720, artist.
- Published / Created
- [between 1720 and 1756]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"A young lady, three-quarter length, seated facing front, turned a little to left, head tilted over right shoulder, holding the end of a garland of flowers up in right hand, the other end resting under left hand in her lap, a crook across her lap and a lamb at her feet to left."--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.: 1948,0410.345.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
"As harmless as a turtle of the woods, fair as the summer beauty of the fields, as opining flowers untainted yet in the winds, the pride of nature and the joy of sense."--Written in two columns and two lines on either side of the title.
"Miss Pickering" written in pencil below print by previous owner.
Mounted on leaf numbered 42 in an album of 50 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 247 x 346 mm
- Edition
- [State 2].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 3 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Collection Date
- [England], [between 1684 and 1799?]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1720 - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
- England > London > 1720
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12283905
- Object ID (OID)
- 16194774
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