print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.3021
- Title
- Object: Modesty
- Description
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A young woman in a street, holding a fan before her face and a lap-dog under her arm, wearing a gown with a fichu and a large bonnet; with a man walking past on the right, his back to the viewer; a church spire in the background. 1781
Hand-coloured mezzotint
- Production date
- 1781
- Dimensions
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Height: 353 millimetres
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Width: 250 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- States [recorded in the Lennox-Boyd database]
(i) lettered with the title and 'London Printed for R Sayer & J Bennett Map & Printsellers, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 13 July, 1781.'
(ii) republished by Sayer alone; publication line altered to 'London, Printed for Robert Sayer Map & Printseller, No. 53, Fleet Street, as the Act directs, 13 July 1790'; number 128 added bottom left [impression with CLB]
- 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
- 2010,7081.3021