A visit to the grandmother [graphic].

Description

Title: A visit to the grandmother [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1789]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 1st Decr. 1789 by Robt. Sayer, 53 Fleet Street, London
Abstract: A woman visiting her grandmother with two children, standing on the right ready to take the little child the grandmother holds on her knee, while the child holds out a hat to receive a bird's nest offered by a young boy; a little truck lying in the foreground; corner of a building behind the figures and trees beyond. On the shelf to the left of the grandmother are two books and a pair of spectables
Description: Title from item.
Plate reworked from the earlier state which also published by Sayer under the same title and on the same day.
Companion print: A visit to the grandfather.
Plate numbered '254' in lower left corner.
Provenance: Old Print Shop; November 1958;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 34.8 x 25 cm, on sheet 38 x 27 cm
Edition: [2nd state, with faces reworked and rocker work visible in the background].
Language: English

Genre: Genre prints
Mezzotints England London 1789
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper hand-colored.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Birds
Children
Eyeglasses
Families
Grandparents
Nests
Subjects: Birds
Children
Eyeglasses
Families
Grandparents
Nests
England > London > 1789

Access: Public
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