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Miss Walpole
Title
Miss Walpole [graphic] / W.H. Bunbury delint. ; Watson & Dickinson excudt.
Publication
London : Publish'd Jany. 22d, 1780, by Watson & Dickinson, No. 158 New Bond Street, [22 January 1780]
Physical Description
1 print : stipple engraving and etching ; sheet 24.7 x 17.8 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Early state, before title changed to "Nancy" and before verses added below image. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1906,0419.130.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Summary
"Portrait of the actress Charlotte Walpole dressed as a sentry in her role as Nancy in R.B. Sheridan's 'The Camp', an infantry soldier standing pointing and directed to left, holding rifle against left elbow, wearing cocked hat on powdered hair with a cockade, a thatched cottage in background to right with a sign lettered 'CW', the tents of a military camp in a field down the hill to left; after Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 21, 2020
References
Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 87
Subjects
Genre/Form
Stipple engravings - England - London - 1780.
Etchings - England - London - 1780.
Also listed under
Watson & Dickinson, publisher.
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