print;
title-page
- Museum number
- 1877,0512.542
- Title
- Series: Progress of Female Dissipation
- Description
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Title-page; a heart-shaped wreath of flowering branches to left, plumes and branches to right, issuing from masks lying on a tambourine, around text. 1800
Etching and aquatint printed in sepia on yellow paper
- Production date
- 1800
- Dimensions
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Height: 224 millimetres
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Width: 260 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- The series 'A Progress of Female Dissipation' and its counterpart 'A Progress of Female Virtue' are examples of a number of series of prints after Maria Cosway's designs published by Ackermann in 1800, engraved in this case by Cardon. They are treated together by Abbey under number 270. Bound sets of both series in BM P&D (1871,0812.2303 and 2320) were exhibited in 'Richard & Maria Cosway', Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion', SNPG, Edinburgh, 1995, with a catalogue by Stephen Lloyd: no. 251 and page 68.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1877
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1877,0512.542