Accession number:
PML 140269.6
Published:
[London? : s.n., 1831?]
Description:
1 print : steel engraving ; image: 116 x 90 mm; sheet: 222 x 146 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Proof impression of 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, date, and circumstances of publication provided by secondary sources. Cf. B. Hunnisett, Illustrated dictionary of British steel engravers (under the entry for "Rolls, Charles"); The mirror of literature, amusement, and instruction, v. xvi, no. 466, p. 465 (see article headed: The spirit of the annuals for 1831); and Dubuisson.
Printed on chine and mounted within an album.
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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