A Girl at School

1780s?

David Allan

Artist, British, 1744 - 1796

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching and aquatint printed in brown on laid paper, laid down on mount

  • Credit Line

    Pepita Milmore Memorial Fund

  • Dimensions

    sheet (trimmed to plate): 19.4 × 12.9 cm (7 5/8 × 5 1/16 in.)
    mount: 21.5 × 18.2 cm (8 7/16 × 7 3/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2018.91.2

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Meyer 1872 - 1885: undesc.; similar to no. 6

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

(James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, MA); purchased 2018 by NGA.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1872

  • Meyer, Julius et al. Allegmeines Kunstler-Lexikon, unter Mitwirkung der namhaftesten Fachgelehrten des In- und Auslandes. 3 vols. Leipzig: Wilhelm Engelmann, 1872-1885: similar to no. 6

Inscriptions

on tablet in image: ABCD / Padre nostro / Che sei nel / Ciel Sia / Santificato il / tuo nome / Venga il tu... / Regna sia; lower left in plate: Schidone Pinx.t; lower center in plate: A GIRL at SCHOOL; lower right in plate: D. Allan fec.t

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