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Object Type
Museum number: X,6.111
Title: Object: Pygmalion
Description: Pygmalion, wearing a loose robe, standing before his statue of a nude female, around which is a garland; in attendance, a seated female figure holding a box; sculpting implements on the ground; classical buildings, columns, and statues, and a curtain in the foreground. Mezzotint
Producer name: After: Joseph Werner; Published by: Bernard Lens II; Printed by: Elisha Kirkall
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Production date: 1680-1725
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Dimensions: Height: 173 millimetres; Width: 126 millimetres
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Curator's comments: States (i) lettered with the title and 'Warner Pinxit. // B Lens exc.' (ii) publisher's name erased Other impressions: Edinburgh (i); Yale CBA (i) Nicholas Stogdon notes that this impression is printed in sea-green like a Kirkall. He compares it to a mezzotint of Hagar and Ishmael by Bernard Lens II which Kirkall republished in sea-green: see X,6.88. The register number suggests that it might have formed part of Hans Sloane's collection of Kirkall's work. The artist Warner is presumably Joseph Werner, after whom another mezzotint of the Nativity was made at the same period (see 1868,1114.490).
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Location: Not on display
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1753
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: X,6.111

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