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Mrs. Ann Young, spinster
Title
[Mrs. Ann Young, spinster] [graphic] / W.F.
Publication
[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1783]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; plate mark 14.4 x 8.4 cm, on sheet 16.7 x 12.3 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from contemporary note in brown ink below image.
Additional title from annotation on British Museum impression of a variant state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1852,1211.148.
Printmaker and date from Horace Walpole's note in brown ink, in lower right corner: By Mr. W. Fauquier 1783.
Variant (later?) state, with printmaker's initials etched in lower right corner. For a state lacking these initials, see no. 2845 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 3.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 56, to Pickering [London, 1126]; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 1867, and sold at Sotheby's in 1851. At one point owned by John Waldie, Hendersyde, with his bookplate in the volume.
Summary
"This etching gives a portrait to the hips in profile, to our right, of an elderly woman, with a big nose and a protruding lower jaw: she wears a close cap, trimmed with lace at the fore edges; her right hand hangs in front of her body in a listless manner; she stoops."--British Museum catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Mrs. A. Young, of Eltham, 1746
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 19, 2022
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Caricatures.
Portrait prints.
Amateur works.
Satires (Visual works) - England - 1783.
Etchings - England - London - 1783.
Annotations (Provenance) - 18th century.
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