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Print made by Richard Houston, ca. 1721–1775, British, Night, 1758
- Title:
Night
- Date:
- 1758
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on thin, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (36.2 × 25.7 cm), Image: 12 3/4 × 10 inches (32.4 × 25.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower right: "134 TT"
Lettered below image: "Ph. Mercier pinxt. | Publish'd according to Act of Parliament Jany. 1758 | Richd. Houston Fecit | NIGHT. | Now sprightly Thoughts elate the Virgin's Breast, | At Masquerade she wishes to be blest | Tho as a Pilgrim here the Nymph appears, | She feels a Woman's Hopes & Woman's Fears. | London Printed for Robt. Sayer opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street Price 1s 6d."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.968
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- costume | figure study | genre subject
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22658
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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. 5, 48, no. 197, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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