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Print made by Richard Purcell, active 1746–1766, Irish, The Seamstress, undated
- Title:
The Seamstress
- Date:
- undated
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/8 × 10 inches (35.9 × 25.4 cm), Image: 12 5/16 × 9 7/8 inches (31.3 × 25.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "274"; lower right: "S./[]1028, no 82"
Lettered, lower left: "P. Mercier pinxt."; lettered, lower right: "C.Corbutt fecit."; lettered, lower center: "The Seamstress. | London Printed for Robt Sayer Map & Printseller at No.53 in Fleet Street."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1101
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- figure study | genre subject | seamstress
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22945
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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. 47, no. 184, pl. 14e, N12 W35 +A1 OVERSIZE (YCBA) [YCBA]
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