Mrs. Siddons
Caroline Watson, English, 1760 - 1814, after Robert Edge Pine, English, 1720/30 - 1788
1784
Stipple engraving and etching on paper
Sight: 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm)
Sight: 18 in. (45.7 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College
PR.X.201
Publisher
John Boydell, London, England
Geography/Culture
Europe, Great Britain
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Classification
Not on view
Inscription
Inscribed, in plate below image: R.E. Pine pinx-t. / Caroline Watson sculp-t.; in plate: Mrs. Siddons / Euph:...in a dear Father's cause, / A Woman's Vengeance tow'rs above her sex. / Grecian Daughter, Act 5 / Publish'd May 1, 1784 by John Boydell Engr. in Cheapside, London
Published References
Freeman O'Donoghue Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum. vols. 1-5, London, 1908–22, vol. IV, p. 101, no. 42. Lillian Arvilla Hall Catalogue of Dramatic Portraits in the Harvard College Theatre Collection. 4 vols., 1930–1934, vol. IV, p. 60, no. 66. David Alexander Caroline Watson and Female Printmaking in Late Georgian England Ex. cat., Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. 2014, cat. no. 6, checklist no. 8, pp. 36, 75, ill.
Provenance
Source unknown.
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