Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the choir mem. of the Comte de Comminge / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the choir mem. of the Comte de Comminge / [graphic]
Creator
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker
Contributor
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Published / Created
[20 October 1782]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street
Abstract

"A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door with inscription in tablet above at right, another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Prinkmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue.
"Final third state, the aquatint considerably lighter than in the second and the inscription above the doorway in even engraved letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below image, following title: Thoughts of past joys before the altar rise, stain all my soul and wanton in my eyes! I wake the matin lamp in sighs for thee, thy image steals between my God and me. Eloisa.
Mounted on page 11 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent
1 print : sheet 39.0 x 50.0 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
Collection Title
Volume 2, page 11. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. Page 125. Bunbury album.
Collection/Other Creator
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811.
Collection Date
[Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] [London], [between 1780 and 1794]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Illustrations
Book illustrations
Aquatints England London 1782
Stipple engravings England London 1782
Etchings England London 1782
Material
aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with rocker ; and laid paper brown ink.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749.
Subject (Topic)
Interiors
Abbeys
Monks
Doors & doorways
Bells
Subjects
Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749 > Illustrations
Interiors
Abbeys
Monks
Doors & doorways
Bells
England > London > 1782
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
15377640
Object ID (OID)
17355519

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