The happy mother [graphic]

Description

Title: The happy mother [graphic]
Creator: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker
Contributor: Spencer, Lavinia, Countess, 1762-1831, artist.
Vivares, Susanna, active 1781-1797, publisher.
Published / Created: [27 February 1787]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pubd. Feby. 27th, 1787, by S. Vivares, Great Newport Street
Abstract: "A lady working at her embroidery turns to watch a child holding a bird, an oval composition."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Companion print to: The tender mother.
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.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 30.2 x 39 cm, on sheet 43.2 x 52 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 36. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [1774?]

Genre: Amateur works
Genre prints
Stipple engravings England London 1787
Material: stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Mothers
Embroidery
Children
Birds
Subjects: Mothers
Embroidery
Children
Birds
England > London > 1787
Waldie, John, 1781-1865? > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership