Miss Hoare [graphic]

Description

Title: Miss Hoare [graphic]
Creator: Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Contributor: Hoare, William, 1707-1792, artist.
Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1765 and 1773]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street
Abstract: "Portrait, half-length seated three-quarter to left, arms folded in front of her, leaning over a large picture book, head in profile, wearing a little lace cap; after Hoare; state after address altered to Sayer's."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date of publication inferred from format of publisher's name and listed street address in imprint; Robert Sayers's premises on Fleet Street would not have been numbered until the mid-1760s, and his imprints began reading "Sayer & Bennet" beginning in 1774 and then "Sayer & Co." from 1784 until his death. See British Museum online catalogue.
Watermark.
Provenance: Circular collector stamp of Rev. John Burleigh James (1811-1891) (Lugt 1425) on verso, with pencil note ‘Bought of the Artist’ at top. Bogislav Winner; January 2025.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 32.6 x 23 cm, on sheet 39.4 x 28 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English