[Mrs. Ann Young, spinster] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Mrs. Ann Young, spinster] [graphic]
Alternative Title: Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Creator: Fauquier, William, printmaker
Published / Created: [1783]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
Description: Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image.
Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148.
Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783.
Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3.
Mounted on page 77 in volume 1 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. At one point owned by John Waldie, Hendersyde, with his bookplate in the volume. Sotheby's, 28 October 1942 (Miscellaneous Sale), to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 14.4 x 8.4 cm, on sheet 16.7 x 12.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]