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- Title:
- Domestic Amusement: Playing on the Guitar
- Additional Title(s):
Domestic Amusement and Employment
Playing the Guitar- Date:
- ca. 1760
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 5/8 × 9 13/16 inches (32.1 × 24.9 cm), Image: 11 11/16 × 9 13/16 inches (29.7 × 24.9 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "after Mercier"; lower right: "Engraved J Houston"; lower center: "Domestic amusement"; lower left: "CS 141 unrecorded state | before all letters"; in pen and brown ink, lower right: "S" or "JP" | "26"; lower left: "No. 198-05"
Collector's mark: Paul Mellon
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.11952
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- figure study | genre subject | guitar | leisure | music
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
Note: The Study Room is open by appointment. Please visit the Study Room page on our website for more details. - Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:31736
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