print;
frontispiece
- Museum number
- 1868,0822.3903
- Description
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Amyntor and Theodora; a young woman fainted at beach; on the left, a young man kneeling down and holding her head; two other figures standing; to extreme left, a ship in distance; in roundel; after Kauffman; one of twenty-one frontispieces to 'The poets of Great Britain, complete from Chaucer to Churchill' (Edinburgh: John Bell, 1777-1792); proof before letters.
Etching with engraving
- Production date
- 1780
- Dimensions
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Height: 143 millimetres
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Width: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Bell's edition was first published in 1777. Frontispieces have publication lines from London. According to Calabi + De Vesme, this is a frontispiece for the volume of David Mallett and a later state of this print is dated 1780.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The poets of Great Britain, complete from Chaucer to Churchill
- Acquisition date
- 1868
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1868,0822.3903