[Mrs. Ann Young, spinster] [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- [Mrs. Ann Young, spinster] [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
- Creator
- Fauquier, William, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [1783]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue
- Description
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Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image.
Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148.
Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783.
Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3. - Provenance
- Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. At one point owned by John Waldie, Hendersyde, with his bookplate in the volume.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 14.4 x 9 cm, on sheet 16.7 x 13 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3588 v.1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title
- Volume 1, page 77. Collection of prints engraved by various persons of quality.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [1774?]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Caricatures
Portrait prints
Amateur works
Satires (Visual works) England 1783
Etchings England London 1783
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- etching ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Topic)
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Older people
Single women - Subjects
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Older people
Single women
England > 1783
England > London > 1783
18th century
Waldie, John, 1781-1865? > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 99162389483408651
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207521
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