A Lady Reading
date: label: date made
content: 1775
name: label: engraver
content: Earlom, Richard
label: delineator
content: Farington, George
label: publisher
content: Boydell, John
label: original artist
content: Bol, Ferdinand
notes: label: Description
content: Mezzotint after original painting by Ferdinand Bol once in the Gallery at Houghton. Now in the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, with descriptive title Portrait of an Old Woman with a Book. Print removed from George P. Marsh's copy of The Houghton Gallery, vol. 1. Pencil note on mounting sheet indicates print was taken out for Cincinnati Exhibition, 1888.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United Kingdom: England, London
topic: label: Subject
content: Women
label: Subject
content: Books
label: related event
content: Cincinnati Industrial Exposition
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content: Work and Industry: Graphic Arts
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content: Communications
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content: Marsh Collection
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content: Art
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Marsh Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1978.0534.02.57
label: accession number
content: 1978.0534
label: catalog number
content: 1978.0534.02.57
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
label: Object Name
content: mezzotint
label: Object Type
content: Mezzotint
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: ink (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 47.75 cm x 32.25 cm; 18 13/16 in x 12 11/16 in
label: Measurements
content: plate: 45.5 cm x 30.5 cm; 17 29/32 in x 12 in