Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the choir mem. of the Comte de Comminge / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the choir mem. of the Comte de Comminge / [graphic]
- Creator
- Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
- Contributor
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Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher. - Published / Created
- [20 October 1782]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
- Abstract
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"A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door with inscription in tablet above at right, another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title engraved below image.
Prinkmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue.
"Final third state, the aquatint considerably lighter than in the second and the inscription above the doorway in even engraved letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below image, following title: Thoughts of past joys before the altar rise, stain all my soul and wanton in my eyes! I wake the matin lamp in sighs for thee, thy image steals between my God and me. Eloisa.
Mounted on page 125 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with rocker in reddish-brown ink on laid paper ; sheet 38.8 x 50.0 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark. - Provenance
- Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 39.0 x 50.0 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Volume 2, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 125. 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Illustrations
Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1782
Stipple engravings England London 1782
Etchings England London 1782 - Material
- aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with rocker ; and laid paper brown ink.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
- Subject (Topic)
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Interiors
Abbeys
Monks
Doors & doorways
Bells - Subjects
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Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749 > Illustrations
Interiors
Abbeys
Monks
Doors & doorways
Bells
England > London > 1782
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15377640
- Object ID (OID)
- 33179104
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