Fille de Montmelian [graphic]

Description

Title: Fille de Montmelian [graphic]
Creator: Knight, Charles, 1743-1827?, printmaker
Contributor: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created: [10 July 1784]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd July 10th, 1784, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract: A young woman stands in front of a cliff, facing right, wearing a dress and a hat; a stringed instrument, which she grasps with both hands, is slung around her shoulders with a ribbon or strap; the roof of a cottage, some trees, and the side of a mountain are seen behind her on the right
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 25 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 : sheet 37.1 x 29 cm
Language: French
English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 25. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 39. Bunbury album.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]

Genre: Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1784
Material: stipple engraving with etching in bistre ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): France.
Subject (Topic): Peasants
Clothing & dress
Stringed instruments
Dwellings
Subjects: Peasants > France
Clothing & dress > France
Stringed instruments
Dwellings
England > London > 1784
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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