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Object Type
Museum number: 2010,7081.3841
Title: Object: Painting
Description: A fashionably-dressed young woman sitting in front of a mirror, applying rouge, while her maid stands behind her to right holding her hat; in an oval frame; scratched open-letter state. 1783 Hand-coloured mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: John Raphael Smith; Published by: John Raphael Smith
School/style
Production date: 1783
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique: mezzotint; hand-coloured
Dimensions: Height: 49 millimetres (inscription space, trimmed); Height: 393 millimetres; Width: 325 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references: D'Oench 1999 / Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) (213); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (193a) (Add. & Corr.; undescribed state); Frankau 1902 / John Raphael Smith, his Life and Works (263) (undescribed state)
Location: Not on display
Acquisition name
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
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: 2010,7081.3841

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