A young woman seated in a caned armchair with cushions, directed to right, wearing a frilled cap, a dark apron over her gown with long sleeves and ruffles at the elbow, spinning and glancing at the viewer; a fireplace with a work bag hanging a fire screen in front of it, to the right; an urn on the mantel piece with a mirror on the wall, curtains behind on right and left; after Heilmann
Alternative Title:
Domestic amusement and Lovely spinner
Description:
Title from caption etched below image., Date from unverified card catalog., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Companion print to: Domestick amusement. The fair seamstress., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, map & printseller, at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn, Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Chairs, Fireplaces, Interiors, Mirrors, Purses, Sewing equipment & supplies, Spinning, Spinning apparatus, and Young adults
Purcell, Richard, approximately 1736-approximately 1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1746 and 1766]
Call Number:
793.00.00.71
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A pretty young woman stands beneath a tree spinning wool from a spindle
Description:
Title engraved below image., Richard Purcell signed his works, among other names, as Charles Corbutt. See: Bénézit. Dictionaire critique et documentaire des peintres, ... [New ed.] , v. 11, page 302., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogure, registration no.: 1874,0613.2661., Imperfect; text "Plate 2" following title has been mostly erased from sheet. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Lewis Walpole Library impression: Formerly dated 1793.
Publisher:
Printed for Robt. Sayer, at No. 53 in Fleet Street
Subject (Topic):
Spinning, Spinning apparatus, Wool, and Young adults
