print
- Museum number
- 1922,0803.1
- Description
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An old woman, half-length, facing forward holding a book
Etching
- Production date
- 1780-1807
- Dimensions
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Height: 94 millimetres
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Width: 63 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Opie's mother lived into her 90s, dying only in 1805 (see ODNB under Opie) and this may, as the annotation suggests, be a portrait of her, but it bears a strong resemblance to Opie's painting of another old Cornishwoman, Dorothy Pentreath (for a print based on that portrait, see 1873,0510.2659).
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1922
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1922,0803.1
