print;
newspaper/periodical;
album
- Museum number
- 1881,0312.318-325
- Description
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Eight illustrations to Haywood's 'Betsy Thoughtless', for the 'Novelist's Magazine' (London, 23 vols., 1780-1788, Harrison & Co), after Stothard; with an ornate frame containing a head surrounded by rays at the top, and a scrolled cartouche for the relevant book title at the bottom; pasted on the album.
Plate I; The duel between Betsy's brother and the gentleman commoner; two men lying wounded, supported by companions, one on the left holding a sword, the other with a pistol lying by his knees; by Heath. 1783
Plate II; Betsy addressed by a stranger lady in the cloister of Westminster Abbey; a woman emerging from a doorway and taking Betsy by the arm, at night; by Walker. 1783
Plate III; Nurse Busham showing Trueworth the child she imagined to be Betsy's; the young woman presenting a child to a man sitting on the right by a hearth, watched by two other children; by Heath. 1783
Plate IV; Trueworth rescues Betsy from violation by Sir Frederick Fineer; Trueworth bursting into the room on the right, preventing Fineer from ravishing Betsy, who clings to a bedpost; by Birrell. 1783
Plate V; Trueworth meeting the masked Incognita in St. James' Park; a young woman wearing a mask, sitting on a park bench, addressing Trueworth, who passes on the left; by Heath. 1783
Plate VI; Trueworth detecting Miss Flora's treacherous conduct by means of a letter; Betsy having knocked over her chair, struggling to take back a letter from a man who holds it above her head on the right; by Walker. 1783
Plate VII; Trueworth discovers Mrs. Munden in possession of his portrait; Betsy sitting on a garden bench, looking at a cameo portrait of Trueworth, while he watches her from the bushes behind on the left; by Heath. 1783
Plate VIII; Betsy's husband Mr Munden kills the squirrel which Trueworth had given her; Betsy flinging up her hand in dismay at the sight of her pet squirrel lying dead on the hearth, watched by her husband who stands with his arms folded on the right; by Angus. 1783
Etching and engraving
- Production date
- 1783
- Dimensions
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Height: 155 millimetres (each image, approx.)
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Width: 100 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See 1881,0312.153 for comment.
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
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Associated Title: Novelist's Magazine
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Associated Title: The History of Betsy Thoughtless
- Acquisition date
- 1881
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1881,0312.318-325