Accession number
PML 140269.4
Creator
Rolls, Charles, 1800- engraver.
Published
[London? : s.n., 1831]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Proof of a preliminary etching for a steel engraving entitled The use of tears, executed by London engraver Charles Rolls after a painting of the same title by R.P. Bonington for inclusion in the 1831 volume of the literary annual The Keepsake.
Title, engraver, date, and circumstances of publication provided by secondary sources. C.f. B. Hunnisett, Illustrated dictionary of British steel engravers (under the entry for "Rolls, Charles"); The mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction, vol. xvi, no. 466, p. 465 (see article headed: The spirit of the annuals for 1831); and Dubuisson.
Plate is trimmed to image size and mounted within an album (Bonington album PML 140269) with the title inscribed in pencil below the image; an impression of the same engraving in a later state, with engraver's name, is included in the same album.
Title, engraver, date, and circumstances of publication provided by secondary sources. C.f. B. Hunnisett, Illustrated dictionary of British steel engravers (under the entry for "Rolls, Charles"); The mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction, vol. xvi, no. 466, p. 465 (see article headed: The spirit of the annuals for 1831); and Dubuisson.
Plate is trimmed to image size and mounted within an album (Bonington album PML 140269) with the title inscribed in pencil below the image; an impression of the same engraving in a later state, with engraver's name, is included in the same album.
Description
1 print : etching on steel ; image: 116 x 90 mm
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Print shows a young woman in bed attended by an elderly woman who sits at her bedside holding her hand.
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