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Print made by Philip Dawe, ca.1745–ca.1809, British, Theodosius, 1780
- Title:
Theodosius
- Date:
- 1780
- Medium:
- Mezzotint and etching on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 1/16 x 9 13/16 inches (30.7 x 24.9 cm), Plate: 10 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches (25.5 x 19.5 cm), Image: 8 3/4 x 7 11/16 inches (22.3 x 19.5 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in black ink, upper left: "N[...]t | S-4118"; inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "327"; lower right: "280"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Painted & Engrav'd by P. Dawe"; lower center: "THEODOSIUS. | May you Constantia long be Happy in this World but forget that | there was ever such a man as ____ Theodosius | London. Publish'd as the Act directs 1. Feb: 1780. by R. Wilkinson No. 58. Cornhill."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.854
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- books | collar | curls | gesture | historical subject | lace | love | love letter | man | mourner | mourning | oval | portrait | reading | sadness | Theodosius and Constantia, poem by Addison, Joseph (1672–1719), writer and politician
- Associated People:
- Theodosius
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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