Accession number
PML 140269.9
Creator
Reynolds, Samuel William, 1773-1835, engraver.
Published
À Paris : Chez Arrowsmith, [1827]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
According to Whitman, this is state I with the artist and engraver but without the title or date; title and date supplied from Whitman's description of a later state (entry 334, state II).
Library's copy mounted on folio 9 of a bound volume of prints by and after Bonington (see Bonington album PML 140269) with the title inscribed in pencil on page below print.
Library's copy mounted on folio 9 of a bound volume of prints by and after Bonington (see Bonington album PML 140269) with the title inscribed in pencil on page below print.
Description
1 print : mezzotint ; image: 200 x 159 mm; sheet: 203 x 252 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman and elderly woman dressed in seventeenth century costume and seated side by side; the old woman reads from a volume while the young woman in the foreground gazes off to the right, her cheeks resting against the fingertips of her right hand and a dog by her side with its head resting in her lap.
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