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• Title:The studious fair [graphic].
  
• Publication:[London] : Sold by Edwd. Fisher in Leicester Fields & by Ryland & Bryer in Cornhill, [not before 1767]
  
• Physical Description:1 print : mezzotint ; plate mark 358 x 254 mm, on sheet 370 x 270 mm
  

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: 767.00.00.12+
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Printseller's stamp in lower right corner: S.W.F.
    
  • Provenance:Leverhulme-Auchincloss, vol. vi; May 1954; Acquisitions no.: 954-5-3-1.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:laid paper
  
• Local Notes:Temporary local subject terms: Female dress, ca. 1755 -- Lighting: lamp -- Writing implements: inkwell -- Miniatures worn as jewelry.
  
• Notes:Title from item.
  Publication date inferred from dates of business of publishers.
  Sitter identified in an unverified card catalog record as Peg Woffington.
  Not in J.C. Smith's British mezzotinto portraits. London : Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883.
  
• Summary:"A young woman, three-quarter length, sitting at a table, directed to right, wearing jewels in her hair, a portrait on a ribbon around her wrist, and a fur tippet, right hand holding a quill, resting on a sheaf of papers, left elbow on a box on the table, the hand supporting her head, looking dreamily to right, lit by a table lamp to right."--British Museum online catalogue.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Subjects:Woffington, Margaret, -1760, depicted.
  Women.
  Lamps.
  Writing materials.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Fores, S. W.--Stamp.
  
• Genre/Form:Genre prints.
  Stamps.
  Mezzotints--England--London--1767.
  
• Also listed under:Fisher, Edward, 1722-approximately 1782, publisher.
  Ryland & Bryer (Firm), publisher.