Antique Print-COMUS-JOHN DALTON-SHEPHERDESS-NYMPH-Nutter-Shelley-1789

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‘THE WANDERING NYMPH .’

– a portrait of a shepherdess (here presented as nymph), wearing a hat and holding a staff. Related to one of the ballads in the Rev. John Dalton’s adaptation of Milton’s Comus.

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a portrait of a shepherdess (here presented as nymph), wearing a hat and holding a staff. Related to one of the ballads in the Rev. John Dalton’s adaptation of Milton’s Comus.

Made by W. Nutter after S. Shelley.

Medium: Stipple engraving. on wove (vellin) paper.

Sheet size: 16 x 20.5 cm (6.3 x 8.07 inch). Image size: 14.5 x 18 cm. (5.71 x 7.09 inch).

Condition: very good, given age. Some faint stains in the margins. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

COMUS-JOHN DALTON-SHEPHERDESS-NYMPH | DPO-PCO-1-168

BACKGROUND INFORMATION

From ‘The Cabinet of Genius’, published 1789 in London by Taylor.

Biography engraver: William Nutter (1759-1802) was an English draughtsman and engraver. He worked exclusively in stipple engraving in the style of Bartolozzi. Samuel Shelley (1756-1808) was a London-born artist. He was greatly influenced by Joshua Reynolds, despite being self-taught as a miniaturist.

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Dimensions 20 × 16 × 1 cm

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