Books+ Search Results
Contadina della Savoja
Title
Contadina della Savoja [graphic] / HWBunbury delin. ; J. Bretherton f.
Publication
[London] : Publish'd as the act directs April 30th, 1772, by J. Bretherton, No. 134 New Bond Street, [30 April 1772]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and drypoint ; sheet 26.8 x 18.1 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Initial letters of artist's name in signature form a monogram.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
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.
Summary
"A young woman standing on a mountain-top, looking away to left, her hands tucked under her apron, wearing a gown with a laced bodice, fichu and a soft hat, with a shaggy dog beside her to right and a little boy chasing a butterfly in front of her, with a church at the foot of mountains in the background to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
Italian; English
Added to Catalog
June 16, 2020
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Genre prints.
Etchings - England - London - 1772.
Drypoints - England - London - 1772.
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
