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Object Type
print
Museum number
1831,1212.19
Title
Object:
The girl and kitten
Description
Portrait of young girl seated three-quarter length facing front holding small cat in her hands and smiling, wearing broad-brimmed straw hat with ribbon and black shawl over white dress; curtain in the background on left, landscape on right, after Reynolds (Mannings 2087); fourth state. 1787 Hand-coloured etching and stipple
Producer name
Print made by:
Francesco Bartolozzi
After:
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Published by:
William Dickinson
School/style
British
Production date
1787
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
stipple
hand-coloured
Dimensions
Height:
259 millimetres
Width:
186 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Original painting in private collection, USA (see Mannings, cat. 2087, pp. 535-536).
Bibliographic references
Hamilton 1884 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds
(p.148)
Calabi & De Vesme 1928 / Francesco Bartolozzi. Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique d'après les manuscrits de A. De Vesme entièrement réformés et complétés d'une étude critique par A. Calabi
(1239.IV)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Associated with:
John Dryden
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Colnaghi
Acquisition date
1831
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1831,1212.19