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Object Type
print
Museum number
K,57.46
Title
Object:
Mrs. Abington
Description
Portrait as the Comic Muse; full-length, standing in landscape, in classical dress with long billowing scarf and sandals, head directed and looking to right, where she is about to crown with laurel a bust of Shakespeare, on a pedestal against which is propped a lyre, a comic mask held up in her right hand, at her feet a tambourine; behind to right a tree, pipes tied to a branch; after R Cosway; state after publication details changed. 1783 Stipple with etching
Producer name
Print made by:
Francesco Bartolozzi
After:
Richard Cosway
Published by:
Simon Watts
School/style
British
Production date
1783
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
stipple
Dimensions
Height:
264 millimetres
(cropped)
Width:
184 millimetres
(cropped)
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments
Title from sixth state. (Calabi + De Vesme)
Bibliographic references
Calabi & De Vesme 1928 / Francesco Bartolozzi. Catalogue des estampes et notice biographique d'après les manuscrits de A. De Vesme entièrement réformés et complétés d'une étude critique par A. Calabi
(1036.IV)
Daniell 1890 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Richard Cosway, R.A.
(1)
Location
Not on display
Subjects
allegory/personification
musical instrument
Associated names
Portrait of:
Frances Abington
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Dr Charles Burney
(estate of)
Acquisition date
1818
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
K,57.46