Miss Farren [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Miss Farren [graphic]
- Creator
- Jones, John, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher
- Contributor
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Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, sculptor.
Roberts, James, 1753-approximately 1809, artist, publisher. - Published / Created
- [31 March 1789]
- Publication Place
- Oxford and London
- Publisher
- Publish'd as the act directs, March 31, 1789, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and John Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
- Abstract
-
"Portrait bust as Thalia on a ledge, turned in profile to right and wearing crown of leaves, her hair curled to her shoulders, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Dedication etched below title: To the Countess of Aylesbury this engraving from the original bust executed in marble by the Honble. Mrs. Damer is most respectfully dedicated by her Ladyship's most devoted & most grateful servant, James Roberts.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 260 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : stipple engraving with etching on laid paper ; sheet 26.9 x 20.1 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 34.3 x 25.4 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1789
Stipple engravings England Oxford 1789 - Material
- stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829,
- Subject (Topic)
- Sculpture
- Subjects
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Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829
Sculpture
England > London > 1789
England > Oxford > 1789
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
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
- 13251538
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733151
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