Modern Graces [graphic]

Description

Title: Modern Graces [graphic]
Creator: Scott, Edmund, approximately 1746-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Fores, S. W., publisher.
Published / Created: [1 May 1791]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published May 1st, 1791, by S.W. Fores, No. 3 Piccadilly
Abstract: "Three women walking side by side in a field, at left holding a lute and pointing towards the silhouette of a town at right, the figure at right holding a tambourine and the third in the centre wearing a wide brimmed hat and looking directly out at the viewer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Text below title: Grace is in all their steps, in every gesture dignity & love.
Mounted on page 74 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 print : image diameter 30.4 cm, on sheet 38.1 x 35.5 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 74. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Engravings England London 1791
Material: stipple engraving, etching, and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Lutes
Tambourines
Subjects: Lutes
Tambourines
England > London > 1791
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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