Miss Farren [graphic]

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Title: Miss Farren [graphic]
Creator: Jones, John, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: 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 200 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 34.3 x 25.4 cm
Language: English

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: 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: Public
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