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Edward Fisher, 1722–1785, British, Hope Nursing Love, 1771
- Title:
- Hope Nursing Love
- Additional Title(s):
- Miss Morris, Actress, as Hope Nursing Love
- Date:
- 1771
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 19 7/8 × 14 1/8 inches (50.5 × 35.8 cm), Image: 19 1/2 × 14 1/8 inches (49.6 × 35.8 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower center: "Miss Morris"
Collector's mark, verso: Paul Mellon
Lettered, lower left: "Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx,,t"; lower center: "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament 25 July 1771 and sold by E. Fisher at the Golden Head in Leicester Square. | HOPE NURSING LOVE."; lower right: "E. Fisher Sculp,,t"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.12908
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- allegory | arrows | bow | child | dress | forest | hope | love | mother | mythology | nursing | personification | quiver | religious and mythological subject | ribbons | river | robe | rocks (landforms) | sandals | sash | trees | vice | virtue | wings | woods
- Associated People:
- Cupid
Miss Morris (fl. 1769), actress/entertainer - Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:38589
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Peter Crack, A Renaissance source for Hope Nursing Love by Sir Joshua Reynolds, Master Drawings, vol. 62, Spring 2024, pp. 41-42, 45, fig. 2, NC1 .M37 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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