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Print made by John Greenwood, 1727–1792, American, active in Britain (from 1763), The Curious Maids, 1768
- Title:
The Curious Maids
- Additional Title(s):
Les Filles Curieuses
- Date:
- 1768
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 17 3/8 x 11 3/4 inches (44.2 x 29.8 cm), Plate: 13 7/8 x 9 15/16 inches (35.3 x 25.2 cm), Image: 12 1/2 x 9 15/16 inches (31.7 x 25.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, upper right: "cat"; lower right: "o/-"; inscribed on verso, lower center: "#84"; lower right: "cat under(?)"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "In prime of Youth, what Funny Tricks | Are often play'd by either Sex! | The Tales they've heard their Nurses say | They put in Practice Day by Day."; lower center: "The | Curious Maids. | Les Filles Curieuses. | London, Printed for Robt. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street. Publish'd as the Act directs 17 Feby. 1768."; lower right: "J. Greenwood invt. et fecit | Forbear dear Girls! for Pty's sake | Have Mercy on a Sleeping Rake! | As in the Bowl his Hand you've got, | You'll make him soon do __ You know what. | Price 2s."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.947
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- bowl | bows (costume accessories) | candle | chairs | coat | costume | cravat | curtains | drapery | flounces | genre subject | gowns | humor | interior | jewelry | laughing | maids | men | necklaces | night | pearls | sleeping | sword | tricking | tricorne | women
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22637
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