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- Title:
Reading by a Paper-Bell Shade
- Date:
- 1768
- Medium:
- Mezzotint and etching on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 16 7/8 x 11 1/8 inches (42.8 x 28.2 cm), Plate: 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 inches (35.3 x 25.2 cm), Image: 12 15/16 x 9 15/16 inches (32.9 x 25.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "S. 23"; lower center: "(17)"; lower right: "354"
Collector's mark: Unidentified, three flowers (Lugt 2902)
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Hen. Morland pinxt,,"; lower center: "Published as the Act directs [date torn off surface of paper] | Reading by a Paper-bell Shade. | Printed for Carington Bowles, Map & Printseller, at No. 69 in St. Pauls Church Yard, London."; lower right: "Phil. Dawe fecit."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.856
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- book | bow (costume accessory) | bracelets (jewelry) | chair | chiaroscuro | choker | costume | dark | earrings | flounces | flowers (plants) | genre subject | gown | interior | jewelry | lace | lamp (lighting device) | leisure | light | reading | ribbon | shadow | table | woman
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22547
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J. H. Plumb, The pursuit of happiness : a view of life in Georgian England : an exhibition selected from the Paul Mellon collection, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 1977, pp. 40, 88, no. 45, N6766 Y34 1977 (YCBA) [YCBA]