Musical charmer [graphic].

Description

Title: Musical charmer [graphic].
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, printseller.
Published / Created: 1 Septr. 1786.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer, Printseller, No. 53 Fleet Street, as the act directs
Abstract: A young woman with a "big hair" sits on sofa playing a guitar, music book beside her. The sitting room is decorated with an oval mirron on the back wall, a ornate carpet on the floor, and a topiary in a pot beside the window, heavy curtains around the windows and behind her on the right
Description: Title from item.
Numbered '170' in lower right corner.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires.
Provenance: Leverhulme-Auchincloss; 4 May 1954;
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 15.5 x 12 cm, on sheet 19 x 14 cm
Language: English

Genre: Satires (Visual works) England 1786
Mezzotints England London 1786
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Subject (Topic): Hairstyles
Clothing & dress
Sofas
Mirrors
Rugs
Draperies
Subjects: Hairstyles > England > 1780-1790
Clothing & dress > England > 1780-1790
Sofas
Mirrors
Rugs
Draperies
England > 1786
England > London > 1786

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