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A woman of fashion's journal
Title
A woman of fashion's journal [graphic] / Woodward del.
Production
[London] : Printed by E. Spragg, No. 27, Bow-Street, Covent Garden
Publication
[London] : Pubd. May 1, 1802, by R. Ackermann, Strand, [1 May 1802]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and drypoint ; plate mark 20.5 x 26 cm, on sheet 42.8 x 26 cm
Medium
wove paper
Notes
Title printed in letterpress below plate line.
Printmaker from Grego.
One paragraph of text printed in letterpress below title: Dreamt of the captain-certainly a fine man-counted my card money ...
Provenance
From a collection in fourteen volumes compiled by Francis Harvey and dispersed at auction, Sotheby, London, June 1900. Sold at Sotheby, London, 12 March 1919. Bequest of Hugh Dudley Auchincloss to Yale University Library, 1981. Bound by Riviere & Son in three-quarters red morocco with gold tooling and gold lettering on spine.
Summary
"A young woman half reclines beside a breakfast-table, on which are urn, tea-pot, and two cups. A book is in her right hand. She 'Dreamt of the Captain . . . Breakfasted at Two . . . dined at Seven . . . went to the Opera . . . my ci-devant husband in the opposite Box.'"--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 01, 2016
References
Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 8, no. 9942
Grego, J. Rowlandson the caricaturist, v. 2, page 35
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1802.
Drypoints - England - London - 1802.
Etchings - England - London - 1802.
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