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Print made by Francis E. Adams, active ca.1760–1775, British, Heyday! Is This My Daughter Anne!, 1773

Creator:

Print made by Francis E. Adams, active ca.1760–1775
after Francis E. Adams, active ca.1760–1775
Published by John Bowles, 1701–1779

Title:

Heyday! Is This My Daughter Anne!

Date:

1773

Medium:

Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper

Dimensions:

Sheet: 14 × 10 1/16 inches (35.5 × 25.5 cm), Image: 12 7/8 x 10 inches (32.7 x 25.4 cm)

Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:

Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "#297"; lower right: "4 G(?) [...]"

Lettered in black, lower left: "F. E. Adams invt. et fecit."; lower center: "HEYDAY! Is this my DAUGHTER ANNE! | Heyday! the country Matron in surprize, | Is this my Daughter thus bedizell'd? cries. | To Town she lately went a Damsel plain: | But scarcely now is to be known again. | That City to its Vanities has brought her, | And banish'd the good Housewifery I taught her. | Why, Child you'll frighten here our honest People: | They'll say you've on your Head a London Steeple."; lower right: "Publish'd Decr. 6. 1773 by John Bowles, No. 13 in Cornhill."

Credit Line:

Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

Copyright Status:

Public Domain

Accession Number:

B1970.3.820

Classification:

Prints

Collection:

Prints and Drawings

Subject Terms:

Access:

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Link:

https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22511

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