[Miss Lewis] [graphic]

Description

Title: [Miss Lewis] [graphic]
Creator: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Liotard, Jean-Etienne, 1702-1789, artist.
Published / Created: [1754]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by J. McArdell according to act of Parliament 1754, & sold at [the] Golden Head in Covent Garden
Abstract: "Portrait, three-quarter length seated on a plain wooden chair directed slightly to left, head tilted to shoulder and looking to right distance, hair up, with a crucifix on a ribbon around her neck, wearing a dress with large embroidered sleeves and lacing across the bodice, holding a letter in both hands."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Sitter identified as Miss Lewis by previous owner.
Mounted on leaf numbered 10 in an album of 50 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm.
Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Provenance: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss to Yale University Library; to Farmington February 1954. Purchased from Charles Scribner's Sons, 3 March 1903 by Mrs. G.T. Bliss.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 255 x 350 mm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Access: Public
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