print;
satirical print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.3017
- Title
- Object: Miss Tipapin going for all nine
- Description
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A fashionably dressed young woman kneeling as she prepares to bowl ninepins, watched by two others on the left, one of whom holds a steaming punch bowl, and a fourth who stands behind to right with a foaming tankard; a little girl behind her picks up a ninepin and a dog sits under the table by the ladies, which is set with a bottle and glass; a slate and chalk tally hangs from a tree. 7 February 1779
Hand-coloured mezzotint with some etching
- Production date
- 1779
- Dimensions
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Height: 355 millimetres
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Width: 253 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See also the reduced version: 2010,7081.1966
Sale catalogue listings
Carington Bowles, 1784, p. 117 no. 421, among '34 ... Prints ... executed from the capital Paintings of that eminent Artist the late John Collet, Esq. in the Possession of Carington Bowles. ... framed and glazed they make a handsome Appearance and Fashionable Furniture, and are always kept ready finished ... 2s. plain, or finely coloured from the paintings, 3s. each'; 1790, p. 107 no. 438
- 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
- 2010,7081.3017