Accession number:
PML 146857.81
Published:
[London : s.n.], Decr. 1790.
Description:
1 print : etching and drypoint ; image: 255 x 188 mm; plate mark: 273 x 192 mm; sheet: 314 x 236 mm
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Item no. 81 of a collection of prints by James Sayers (PML 146857); formerly part of an album of mounted prints, now disbound.
Inscriptions/Markings:
In pencil at foot: Private plate / Lord Derby & Miss Farren.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary:
Miss Farren stands on the right, naked, and in the attitude of the Venus de' Medici; behind her is a stage curtain which Lord Derby, in the upper left corner of the design, draws aside to peer down upon her; he has a grotesque simian head. Their words are etched across the curtain; Miss Farren says: "Here I stand afresh proof of our Managers Meanness ... By the Lord I wont act till they find me new Cloaths."; as Lord Derby says: "O fye ye Linleys curse your niggard Hearts ... I'd give the lovely Maid a choice of Covering." Cf. George.
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