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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1878,0511.1015
Title: Object: The Water Cress Girl
Description: A girl carrying a basket of watercress over her left arm, hands joined at her waist, looking up to left, calling her wares, wearing a hooded cloak tied under her chin and a tattered bonnet over wavy shoulder-length hair; after Zoffany. 1785 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Young; After: Johan Joseph Zoffany; Published by: John Young
School/style: British
Production date: 1785
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 378 millimetres; Width: 277 millimetres
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Curator's comments: This and its pair 'Flower Girl (Chaloner Smith 79; see 2010,7081.3572) are Young's earliest prints. The related painting was exhibited at the Royal Academy, London in 1780.
Bibliographic references: Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (80)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: street-trader
Acquisition name: Purchased from: John Deffett Francis
Acquisition date: 1878
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1878,0511.1015

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