Mrs. Yates in the character of Electra Tragedy of Orestes / [graphic]

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Title: Mrs. Yates in the character of Electra Tragedy of Orestes / [graphic]
Creator: Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
Contributor: Cotes, Francis, 1726-1770 artist.
Published / Created: [1771]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "The heroine standing three-quarter length, holding in her left hand an urn with a long chain bound round her wrist, behind her a monument."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,10.92.
Mounted on leaf numbered 47 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 348 x 494 mm, on sheet 357 x 500 mm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1771
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Yates, Mrs. (Mary Ann), 1728-1784,
Subject (Topic): Actresses
English
Subjects: Yates, Mrs. (Mary Ann), 1728-1784
Actresses > English
England > London > 1771

Access: Public
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