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Robert Pollard, 1755–1838, British, Edwin and Angelina, 1785
- Title:
Edwin and Angelina
- Date:
- 1785
- Medium:
- Etching and line engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 18 1/8 × 22 inches (46 × 55.9 cm), Image: 15 1/2 × 20 5/8 inches (39.4 × 52.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower left: "163"; inscribed in graphite, verso, lower left: "44768 | 22"
Lettered, lower left: "The Landscape Engraved by & under the directio nof R.Pollard. | Forbear my Son, the Hermit cries | To tempt the dang'rous gloom, | for yonder faithless Phantom flies | To lure the to thy doom."; lettered, lower right: "The figures drawn & Engraved by R. Pollard | Here to the Houseless child of want | My Door is open still, | And tho my portion is but scant | I give it with good will."; lettered, lower center: "EDWIN and ANGELINA | From dr. GOLDSMITH'S celebrated Poem of the HERMIT. | LONDON, Publish'd Ajpril 11, 1785, by Robt. POLLARD, No.15 Braynes Row Spa Fields."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12180
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:32025
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