Jonge vrouw met parelketting en een pauw, Richard Houston, after Philippe Mercier, 1731 - 1794

Title(s)

Jonge vrouw met parelketting en een pauw
Pride (title on object)

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-32.077

Catalogue reference

• Chaloner Smith 135-2(2)

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 240

Description

Tekst in het Engels in de ondermarge.

Artist

• print maker: Richard Houston (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Philippe Mercier (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Robert Sayer (mentioned on object)

Place

London

Dating

1731 - 1794

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 355 mm × width 251 mm

What

• Pride; 'Superbia' (Ripa) ~ personification of one of the Seven Deadly Sins
• adolescent, young woman, maiden
• pearl; pearl necklace

Acquisition

transferred 1816

Copyright

Public domain

• British mezzotints portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century, dl. 2, p. 697, cat.nr. 135-II