- Title:
- The Old Ballad Singer
- Date:
- 1775
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 1/4 × 10 1/8 inches (36.2 × 25.7 cm), Plate: 13 7/8 × 9 7/8 inches (35.2 × 25.1 cm), and Image: 12 7/8 × 9 7/8 inches (32.7 × 25.1 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower left: "H Walton, pinxt"; lower right: "174"
Lettered below image: "The Old Ballad Singer. | Printed for Carington Bowles, at his Map & Print Warehouse, No.69 in St.Pauls Church Yard, London. Publish'd as the Act directs."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.760
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by request in the Study Room [Request]
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Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, 2006, pp. 6-7, 14, V 1699 (YCBA)
Timothy J. Barringer, Art & music in Britain, four encounters, 1730-1900 (exhibition and label text) , New Haven, 2006, [p. 35], V 1699:1 (YCBA)
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22457
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Print made by John Raphael Smith, 1752–1812, British, The Old Ballad Singer, 1775
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