[Picking out lice - first study] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Picking out lice - first study] [graphic]
Alternative Title: From an original drawing by Isaac Ostade
Creator: Tobin, James, -1817, printmaker
Contributor: Ostade, Isack van, 1621-1649, artist.
Published / Created: [1773]
Publication Place: England
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title devised by curator.
Mounted on page 12 in volume 2 of Horace Walpole's collection of amateur works entitled: A collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Pasted beneath print is a strip of paper, likely trimmed from the verso of the same sheet, which bears a note in the printmaker's hand: The drawing with a pen by I. Ostade in possion. of J.T.
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 17.7 x 20.2 cm, on sheet 24 x 36.3 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3588 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 2, page 12. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]