The fair bather [graphic]

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Description

Title
The fair bather [graphic]
Contributor
Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756-1827, printmaker.
Boucher, François, 1703-1770, artist.
Published / Created
[1799] and [printed approximately 1980?]
Publication Place
London? and England
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

In the woods beside a stream a young woman bather removes her last stocking while a young man hidden among the reeds looks at her with pleasure

Description
Title etched below image.
Late-20th century restrike on modern paper, similar to others from the same collection bearing pencil annotations suggesting printing dates around 1980. The copper plate would have been in the possession of the successor Leadenhall Press in England at the time, according to Nicholas J.S. Knowles.
Provenance
Ronald Paulson; October 2024.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 17.5 x 24.8 cm, on sheet 28.5 x 35.7 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Paulson 799.00.00.56.1

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Etchings England 1980
Restrikes
Material
etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Topic)
Bathers
Bathing
Nudes
Voyeurism
Subjects
Bathers
Bathing
Nudes
Voyeurism
England > 1980

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public

Identifiers

Catalog Record
17660366
Object ID (OID)
33333952

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