print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.301
- Description
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A young woman shown head and shoulders, sleeping with her head on her hands, resting on a cushion at a table, lit by a candle in the left foreground, wearing a lace veil, necklace and a ring on her little finger; in a frame; after Schalken.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1667-1743
- Dimensions
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Height: 122 millimetres
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Width: 94 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- There is a copy of the composition in reverse direction to this plate by Schenk (Hollstein 449), one in the same direction by Gole (Hollstein 209; Wessely 209), and a reduced 18th century version by Spooner (2010,7081.2200).
States
(i) proof before letters
(ii) lettered in the frame, over mezzotint ground 'G Schalken pinx: // J Smith fec: & excud:'
(iii) republished by H. Jackson; none seen, recorded by Wessely
Later sale catalogue listings
Walter Shropshire, 'A Catalogue of a ... Collection of Prints', London 1770, lot 307, priced 7s. 6d.
Other impressions: Paris BN (i) and (ii); Amsterdam RPK (ii); Chatsworth (ii); Cambridge Fitzwilliam (ii); Glasgow Hunterian (ii); Haddington albums vol. 2, p. 180 (ii); London NPG (ii); Oxford Christ Church (ii); Yale CBA, inscribed in lower left corner '4:5:' (ii)
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 2010
- Acquisition notes
- Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 2010,7081.301