The confidants

Description

Title: The confidants
Creator: Watson, Thomas, 1750-1781, printmaker
Contributor: Martin, Elias, 1739-1818, artist
Watson & Dickinson, publisher.
Published / Created: [20 May 1780]
Publication Place: London and England London
Publisher: Publish'd May 20th, 1780, for Watson & Dickinson No.158, New Bond Street
Abstract: An oval composition showing two fashionable women with large bonnets sitting side-by-side at a small, round table laid with a fine tea set. The woman on the left reads from a letter as the listener looks on with interest and fondles the miniature hung from a ribbon around her neck
Description: Title from item.
Both Smith and Goodwin note another state of this plate with the title "The Confidants or the Billet-doux".
See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Compare: Goodwin, G. British mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins, 61.
Provenance: Maggs Bros.; October 2025.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 26 x 19.7 cm, on sheet 33 x 25 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English