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Print made by Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British, Edwin, 1776
- Title:
Edwin
- Additional Title(s):
Oliver Goldsmith
- Part Of:
- Date:
- 1776
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 11 7/8 x 9 3/16 inches (30.1 x 23.4 cm), Plate: 9 15/16 x 7 1/2 inches (25.2 x 19.1 cm), Image: 8 9/16 x 7 1/2 inches (21.8 x 19.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "30"; inscribed on verso, lower left: "328"
Lettered, lower center: "Engraved from an Original Drawing by Edw.d Fisher. | (three columns of text, left column:) Turn Angelina, ever dear, | My charmer, turn to see, | (center column:) EDWIN. | London, Printed for R. Sayer & J. Bennett, No.53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs 20 Dec.4 1776 | (right column:) Thy own, they long lost Edwin here, | Restor'd to love and thee. | Vicar of Wakefield, pa.77."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.909
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- author | buttons | cape | cloak | curls | dressing | gesturing | illustration | lace | literary theme | long hair | oval | poet | portrait | posing | ruffs | tassels | The Vicar of Wakefield (1766) | vest
- Associated People:
- Goldsmith, Oliver (1728?–1774), author
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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