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Print made by James McArdell, ca. 1729–1765, Irish, Sleepy Maid, 1756
- Title:
Sleepy Maid
- Additional Title(s):
Girl Asleep (The Sleeping Maid)
- Date:
- 1756
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 3/8 × 10 1/4 inches (36.5 × 26 cm), Plate: 12 15/16 × 8 15/16 inches (32.9 × 22.7 cm), Image: 11 1/4 × 8 13/16 inches (28.6 × 22.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in pen and brown ink, upper right: "78"; inscribed in graphite, lower center: "The Sleepy Maid"; inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Sleepy Maid"; inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower left: "P. Mercier"; Inscribed in pen and brown ink, lower right: "J. McArdell"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "305"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower right: "195 a T"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1064
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- figure study | genre subject | plates | servant | sleeping
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22754
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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. 42, no. 155, pl. 14f, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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