Miss Harriot Powell [graphic]

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Description

Title
Miss Harriot Powell [graphic]
Creator
Corbutt, Charles, 1746-1777, printmaker
Contributor
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765.
Read, Catherine, 1723-1778, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created
[between 1746 and 1766]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 Fleet Street
Abstract

"Portrait after Catherine Read, full half length, sitting, directed to left, facing towards and looking to front, tuning a guitar, lace cap, collar."--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.: K,68.71.
Charles Corbutt was a pseudonym used by Richard Purcell; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Plate numbered "157" in lower right corner.
Imperfect; plate number "157" erased from this impression. Number supplied from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Mounted on leaf numbered 45 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 250 x 353 mm, on sheet 277 x 380 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 1746
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subjects
England > London > 1746

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12283947
Object ID (OID)
16194777

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