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Mezzotint on paper of a young woman holding a fancy-dress mask possibly engraved by Richard Houston (1721-1775), proof state before publication details were added. A version by Houston without an oval frame was published by Carrington Bowles (1724-1793) in 1772. This print is a copy in reverse of a painting (1769) by Henry Robert Morland (c.1716-1797) now in Temple Newsam House, Leeds Museums and Galleries. Morland made three additional versions of that painting. It was likely one of those which was exhibited in 1769 at the Free Society of Artists in London under the title ‘A lady in a masquerade habit’. Most print copies appear to have been based on that painting. The current title, together with a couplet from Pope’s ‘The Rape of the Lock’, was added by Carrington Bowles to a mezzotint copy published in 1769.
The Fair Nun Unmask'd
Wep 4178.95
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Western Prints and Drawings collection
Approved Category 2017/Printed Material/Print/Intaglio Print/Engraving/Mezzotint
Approved Place 2018/Europe/United Kingdom/Great Britain/England/Greater London/London
Mezzotint
c. 1772
1769
1777
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Approved Material 2018/Organic/Plant (material)/Plant fibre/Paper (material)
Approved Material 2018/Materials/Coating material/Ink (material)
Paper (material)
Ink (material)
532 mm x 376 mm (height x width)
art
after
Morland, Henry Robert
Morland, Henry Robert, after
cre
possibly by
Houston, Richard
Houston, Richard, possibly by
London
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