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Author/Creator:Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, printmaker.
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Title:Adelaide entering in disguise the Abbey of La Trappe, hears her lovers voice in the choir [graphic] : mem. of the Comte de Comminge / H. Bunbury Esqr. delint. ; W. Dickinson excudit.
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Publication:London : Publish'd Octr. 20th, 1782, by W. Dickinson, engraver & printseller, No. 158 New Bond Street, [20 October 1782]
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Physical Description:1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with rocker ; sheet 39.0 x 50.0 cm
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.2 (Oversize)
- Status:No information available
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Notes:Mounted on page 11 in volume 2 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
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Provenance:Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Call Number: Folio 75 B87 770 (Oversize)
- Status:No information available
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Notes:Mounted on page 125 of: Bunbury album.
1 print : aquatint, stipple engraving, and etching with rocker in reddish-brown ink on laid paper ; sheet 38.8 x 50.0 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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Provenance:Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Grant; May 1940.
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Digital version
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Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
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Medium:laid paper
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Notes:Title engraved below image.
Prinkmaker identified as Dickinson in the British Museum online catalogue.
"Final third state, the aquatint considerably lighter than in the second and the inscription above the doorway in even engraved letters"--British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1893,0731.62.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Four lines of verse below image, following title: Thoughts of past joys before the altar rise, stain all my soul and wanton in my eyes! I wake the matin lamp in sighs for thee, thy image steals between my God and me. Eloisa.
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Summary:"A girl dressed in male clothing, starting with a startled expression and thrusting her right arm forward as she stands between two monks, others seen from behind exiting through a door with inscription in tablet above at right, another ringing a bell through an arch at [left], the choir beyond; after Henry William Bunbury."--British Museum online catalogue.
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In_: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs. [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792] Volume 2, page 11.
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811. Bunbury album. [London], [between 1780 and 1794] Page 125.
- Format:Visual Material
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Subjects:Tencin, Claudine Alexandrine Guérin de, 1682-1749. Mémoires du comte de Comminge--Illustrations.
Interiors.
Abbeys.
Monks.
Doors & doorways.
Bells.
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Subjects (Local Yale):Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Ownership.
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Genre/Form:Book illustrations.
Aquatints--England--London--1782.
Stipple engravings--England--London--1782.
Etchings--England--London--1782.
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Also listed under:Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist.
Dickinson, William, 1746 or 1747-1823, publisher.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15377640