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Laura

Maker

After
(artist)
1802-1848

(printmaker)
1775-1841

(author)
1785-1848

Title

Laura

Date of Production

1836

Medium

etching and engraving with stipple
printed in black

Dimensions

Height: 15.3 cm
Width: 9.4 cm

Accession Number

G.1990.WL.6130

Mode of Acquisition

Witt Library, transfer, 1990

Credit

The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)

Copyright

Work in the public domain

Location

Not currently on display

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Provenance

Information not yet known or updated

Inscriptions

Inscription: Drawn by J.W. Wright. //

Inscription: Heath's Gall. 1836. //

Inscription: Engraved by E. Scriven. //

Inscription: Laura. //

Stamp: WITT / LIBRARY //

Label: LAURA. / PAINTED BY J.M. WRIGHT, ESQ. / And are you really, truly, now a Turk? / With any other women did you wive? / Is't true they use their fingers for a fork? / Well, that's the prettiest shawl - as I'm alive! / You'll give it to me? They say you eat no pork. / And how so many years did you contrive / To - Bless me! did I ever? No I never / Saw a man grow so yellow! How's your liver? / Byron's Beppo - XCII.

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