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Print made by Thomas Ryley, active ca.1744–1754, Women and Wine, ca. 1749
- Title:
- Women and Wine
- Date:
- ca. 1749
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 10 15/16 × 15 inches (27.8 × 38.1 cm), Plate: 9 7/8 × 13 7/8 inches (25.1 × 35.2 cm), Image: 9 1/2 × 13 7/8 inches (24.1 × 35.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered, lower left: "Behold the Emblem of a thoughtless Rake | With Pocketts full, but with an Empty Pate; | Mark all intent to Bilky's Am'rous Fool."; lettered, lower right: "And make his Pocketts, empty as his Scull; | The empty Bottles cast upon the Floor, | Explain his Fate when he can yeild no more."; lettered, lower center: "Women & Wine | Printed for John Bowles at the Black Horse in Corn'hil."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.1133
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22978
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