print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.975
- Title
- Object: Domestick Amusement, The Lovely Spinner
- Description
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A young woman sitting directed to right, wearing a frilled cap, a dark apron over her gown with long sleeves and ruffles at the elbow, spinning and glancing at the viewer; a fireplace with a work-bag hanging from a chair in front of it, to the right; after Heilmann.
Mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1760s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 350 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- This and another plate after Heilmann by James Wilson, of 'Domestick Amusement, The Fair Seamstress (2010,7081.974) correspond with the descripiton of a pair of prints on p.83 of John Bowles's 1764 catalogue.
See also the reduced version of this: 2010,7081.1934
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.975