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Print made by John Dean, 1754–1798, British, The Bird Cage, 1786
- Title:
The Bird Cage
- Additional Title(s):
The Bird
The Bird-Cage
- Date:
- 1786
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 15 3/4 × 10 11/16 inches (40 × 27.2 cm), Image: 10 13/16 x 9 3/16 inches (27.4 x 23.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "c"; inscribed on verso, upper left: "21 3/4 x 18"; upper right: "4 [...]"; lower left: "252 (circled) | cx/"; lower right: "Colnaghi | 6"; in brown ink, lower right: "35/-"
Collector's mark: Walter Francis Duke of Buccleuch (Lugt 402)
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Painted by Sr Josha Reynolds"; lower center: "Publish'd Decr 1st, 1786 by Jno Dean Bentinck Street Soho"; lower right: "Engrav'd by J Dean"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.283
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- barefoot | bird | bird cage | child | curls | dress | figure study | genre subject | landscape | laughing | smiling | trees
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21771
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