print
- Museum number
- 1874,0808.1040
- Description
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An old woman feeding a man sitting on a close-stool. c.1683
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1680-1690
- Dimensions
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Height: 153 millimetres
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Width: 129 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- (Text from Antony Griffiths 'The Print in Stuart Britain', BM 1998, cat.178)
This is one of five known mezzotints by Laroon himself. It is signed in scratched lettering in a reserved area of white at the bottom left corner. None of the five gives any indication who published them, and none seems to have been re-issued by a later publisher. All are extremely rare. The only clue to date them lies in a mezzotint after Laroon by John Smith showing a woman spoonfeeding a child, which is dated 1683 in the New York Public Library album (I p.2; not described by Wessely).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2000 Jan-Mar, Ipswich, Christchurch Mansion, Printmaking in Stuart Britain
2000 May-Jul, Bristol, City Mus and AG, Printmaking in Stuart Britain
2000 Oct-Dec, Lancaster, Peter Scott Gallery, Printmaking in Stuart Britain
2000/1 Dec-Feb, Banff, Duff House, Printmaking in Stuart Britain
2001 Feb-May, Cardiff, National Mus, Printmaking in Stuart Britain
- Acquisition date
- 1874
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1874,0808.1040
