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print, satirical print   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist

After: John Collet

Print made by: Robert Pranker
Title
print, satirical print
Description
English: A woman sitting on a sofa reading, a greyhound beside at right sitting upright, head turned towards her; after John Collet, orginally from a series of "Six Whole Length Figures, cloathed in Modern Taste...". c.1765-75
Etching and engraving
Date between 1763 and 1765
date QS:P571,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1763-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1765-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 189 millimetres
Width: 131 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1866,0407.292
Notes

The series was initially published by Smith & Sayer. Four of the Six were reissued in 'the Draughtsman's Assistant' (1786), with this image as plate 14. In his checklist of prints after Collet, Alexander does not indicate why the present impression should be numbered 26 when it is from a series of six. The series is numbered 60 in Sayer & Bennet's set of a collection of humourous prints including those after Collet, advertised in 1775, so that does not appear to provide the answer, indicating that this impression may be a further reissue.

D'Oench discusses the image in 'Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith' (fig. 70, pp.52-53) as displaying a restrained form of parody, suggesting that the greyhound is looking alert with alarm at the title which the woman is reading. She dates the plate as c.1763-5, but this seems early considering that the earliest print on Alexander's checklist was published in 1765.

For another impression, see 1860,0211.160.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1866-0407-292
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