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The Good Girl Receives the Honourable Addresses of Her Master

Thomas Gaugain, Thomas Hellyer, James Northcote, Thomas Gaugain

The Good Girl Receives the Honourable Addresses of Her Master

1796

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Thomas Gaugain, Thomas Hellyer, James Northcote, Thomas Gaugain

The Good Girl Receives the Honourable Addresses of Her Master

1796

Physical Qualities Engraving, Sheet (trimmed): 483 × 555 mm. (19 × 21 7/8 in.) Plate: 471 × 539 mm. (18 9/16 × 21 1/4 in.) Image: 408 × 498 mm. (16 1/16 × 19 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Garrett Collection
Object Number 1946.112.11854

Inscribed: Recto: below image, lower left, in plate "Painted by J. Northcote R.A."; below image, center left, in plate "Who can find a virtuous Woman? / for her price is far above rubies. / Prov. XXXI. Ver. 10. / House & riches are the inheritance of fathers, / and a prudent Wife is from the Lord. / Prov. XIX. Ver. 14."; below image, center, in plate "London, Published May 1, 1797, by T. Gaugain, No. 15 Five-fields-row, Chelsea, & No. 4 Little Compton Street, Soho. / Diligence & Dissipation / Plate the 8th. / The GOOD GIRL receives the honourable Addresses / of her Master."; below image, center right, in plate "Qui est ce qui trouvera une femme forte? / car son prix surpasse de beaucoup les perles. / Prov. XXXI. Ver. 10. / La maison et les richesses son l'heritage des peres: mais la femme prudente vient de l'Eternel. / Prov. XIX. Ver. 14."; below image, lower right, in plate "Engraved by Gaugain & Hellyer."; below image, lower right, in graphite diamond with "9(?)8(?)1(?)7" Verso: lower left in graphite "[indecipherable]26-"; lower right in graphite "24"

Markings: CM: Claghorn

Artist

Thomas Gaugain

French, active in England, 1756 - 1810
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Artist

Thomas Hellyer

British, active c. 1797 - c. 1804
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Artist

James Northcote

English, 1746-1831
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Thomas Gaugain

French, active in England, 1756 - 1810
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