Miss Lydia Hone – "Her beauty hangs on the Cheek of Night, like a rich Jewel in an Ethiop's Ear"
Object type: Print
Department: Drawings and Prints
Artist: John Raphael Smith|Nathaniel Hone|R. Marshall|Lydia Hone|William Shakespeare
Artist bio: British, baptized Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster|Irish, Dublin 1718–1784 London|London|British, 1758–1773|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon
Artist role: Engraver|Artist|Publisher|Sitter|Subject
Artist nationality: British|Irish|British|British|British
Date: November 30, 1771
Medium: Mezzotint; third state of three
Dimensions: Plate: 13 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (34.8 × 24.6 cm)
Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 3/16 in. (36 × 25.9 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession year: 1924
Tags: Shakespeare|Women