[An old woman letting a boy light his candle] [graphic]Wheatley, Francis, 1747-1801, printmaker[approximately 1770]eng"Old woman and a boy with candles; he leans over her shoulder from the left to light his candle; she holds a basket and shields the flame with her hand; after a copy by Schalken after Rubens (Rooses 862)."--British Museum online catalogueTitle devised by curator; alternative title from text engraved below image.Approximate date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1901,0611.24.Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.Engraved after the painting now in the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels (inv. 8503). This painting might be the one owned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill.Formerly laid in at page 27 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.