The bald fac'd doe [graphic]

Description

Title: The bald fac'd doe [graphic]
Alternative Title: Bald faced doe
Creator: Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Contributor: Topham, Edward, 1751-1820, artist.
Darly, M. publisher.
Published / Created: [29 May 1772]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. by MDarly, Strand, May 29th, 1772, accor. to act
Abstract: "Portrait, whole length, of a very stout woman standing in profile to right. Her right hand is thrust beneath her apron, a bunch of keys hangs from her waist. She wears a cap, elbow sleeves, a figured handkerchief or scarf, a straight full skirt over a quilted petticoat."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Artist identified as Edward Topham in the British Museum catalogue.
"Epping" is a pseudonym of Matthias Darly; see British Museum catalogue.
Initial letters of publisher's name in imprint form a monogram.
Portrait of Mrs. Owen, an innkeeper at Epping Forest; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Plate numbered "v. 3" in upper left corner and "10" in upper right corner.
First of three plates on leaf 75.
Provenance: P. Murray Hill; August 1945;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 17.9 x 12.5 cm, on sheet 27.5 x 44.4 cm
Edition: [State with volume number].
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 724 776D
Collection Title: Leaf 75. Darly's comic-prints of characters, caricatures, macaronies, &c.
Collection Date: [London] : Pubd. by Mary Darly, Jany. 1, 1776.

Genre: Portrait prints
Satires (Visual works) England 1772
Etchings England London 1772
Material: etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Name): Owen, Mrs., -1783?,
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Aprons
Keys (Hardware)
Taverns (Inns)
Subjects: Owen, Mrs., -1783?
Clothing & dress > England > 1770-1780
Aprons
Keys (Hardware)
Taverns (Inns)
England > 1772
England > London > 1772

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