print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.3134
- Title
- Object: The Pretty Maid with her Apron before the Candle
- Description
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A young woman holding a candle in front of her in right hand, shielding the flame with her left, shrouded in the folds of her apron, looking down at the flame and smiling, wearing a bonnet decorated in a bow with the tie flying loose, her face lit from beneath; after Morland. 1770
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1770
- Dimensions
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Height: 356 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Similar in the opposite direction to a print by J Watson (2010.7081.1088; Chaloner Smith 163, Goodwin 192); there is also a version by Purcell (Chaloner Smith 85; 1876,0708.30)
Sale catalogue listings
Carington Bowles, 1784, p. 107 no. 158; 1s. plain 2s. coloured; 1790, p. 97 no. 161
- 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
- 2010,7081.3134