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Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband", 1739
- Title:
Kitty Clive as Lady Easy in "The Careless Husband"
- Additional Title(s):
A Scene in the Careless Husband
- Date:
- 1739
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 7/8 × 13 inches (27.6 × 33 cm), Image: 9 3/4 x 12 13/16 inches (24.7 x 32.6 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "S114"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "P. Mercier Pinxt,"; lower center: "A Scene in the Careless Husband."; lower right: "I. Faber fecit 1739. | Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 1739."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.887
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- adultery | chairs | cheating | coat | costume | drapery | frill | gowns | husband | interior | literary theme | love | man | play | The Careless Husband, 1704 | The Steinkirk Scene | theater (discipline) | wife | women
- Associated People:
- Clive, Catherine [Kitty] (1711–1785), actress
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22578
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Painters and Engraving - The Reproductive Print from Hogarth to Wilkie (Yale Center for British Art, 1980-03-26 - 1980-06-22) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
John Ingamells, A Catalogue of the Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings of Philip Mercier, Volume of the Walpole Society, vol. 46, Walpole Society, 1976-8, p. 55, no. 234, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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