Sleeping dogs from a design in marble by the Honble. Mrs. Damer ... / [graphic]

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Title: Sleeping dogs from a design in marble by the Honble. Mrs. Damer ... / [graphic]
Creator: Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835, printmaker
Contributor: Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, sculptor.
Cary, John, approximately 1754-1835, publisher.
Published / Created: [18 June 1785]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published June 18, 1785, by J. Cary, map & print-seller, corner of Arundel Street, Strand
Abstract: "Two dogs with curly coats lying intertwined on a drape, a garden beyond a porch at left, in the direction of which the front animal looks, the other resting its head asleep on its back; oval design."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Dedication continues from title and is etched below it: ... to whom this plate is respectfully inscribed by her much obliged and obedient servant, Ino. Cary.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved after the sculpture in marble in the Duke of Richmond's collection at Goodwood.
Mounted on page 183 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 18.7 x 23 cm, on sheet 22.8 x 26 cm
Language: English

Genre: Stipple engravings England London 1785
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806
Goodwood House (England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Sculpture
Dogs
Subjects: Richmond and Lennox, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1735-1806 > Art collections
Goodwood House (England) > Art collections
Sculpture
Dogs
England > London > 1785
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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