Miss Dempster: P.15105-R

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Miss Dempster

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Thomas
Publisher: Parker, Henry
Publisher: Hooper, S.
Publisher: Shropshire, Walter
Publisher: Watson, Thomas
Painter: Willison, George (After)

Entities

Description

After the portrait by George Willison. Three-quarter-length, facing right, head lolled towards the left, looking down. Right hand pressed against right side of chin. A long cloak around shoulders, a paler gown with a repeat pattern of flower posies underneath and a lace-edged veil to the head. Elbows resting on a rock to the right, a tree behind and the hooped handle of a basket of flowers visible at far right. A hilly landscape seen in the background to the left.

Notes

History note: This print was almost certainly bought at a sale held at Wisbey's Sale Rooms on 4th February 1885. 36 prints were purchased by the Director at a cost of £2 (see Syndicate minutes, 6 Feb 1885, item 7). An inscribed number on the verso, '326' may relate to either the sale lot number or a curatorial count of mezzotints in the collection.

Legal notes

Bought, 1885

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1885)

Dating

18th Century#
Production date: 1771-10-01 AD 1771

Note

Mezzotint. Laid down on canvas/hessian secondary support. Proof before title. Artists' names engraved at lower left and lower right: 'G. Willison Pinx.t' and 'T. Watson fecit.' and publication line engraved below: 'Published as the Act directs 1.st Oct.r 1771 for H. Parker N.o 82 Cornhill, S. Hooper N.o 25 Ludgate Hill, W. Shropshire, New Bond Street, & T. Watson in Broad Street'. Chaloner Smith records this state in his Addenda, but makes what is almost certainly a typo in the address of Thomas Watson, citing 'Bond' instead of 'Broad'. This seems especially likely given the Bond Street address which is recorded immediately prior for William Shropshire. The mistake would seem to have been repeated in Goodwin's later volume on Watson. The mistake is corrected by curatorial annotation in the FM copy of Goodwin.