Print made by Francesco Bartolozzi RA, 1728–1815, Italian, active in Britain (1764–99), Mrs. Abington as Thalia, 1783
- Title:
Mrs. Abington as Thalia
- Former Title(s):
Mrs. Abington as the Comic Muse
- Additional Title(s):
Mrs. Abinton
Mrs. Abinton, 1783
Mrs. Abington
- Date:
- 1783
- Medium:
- Etching and stipple engraving in brown ink on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet (cut to plate, lower L corner cut away): 10 9/16 x 8 1/4 inches (26.8 x 21 cm) and Image: 9 1/4 x 7 3/16 inches (23.5 x 18.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, on back, lower left: "Proof | Jw | Juer 1617 | (IR31|1036b)"
Lettered, lower left: "R.d Cosway R. A. Delint"; lower center: "Mrs: ABINGTON | Pubd: 20. Augst: 1783. by F. Bartolozzi London."; lower right: "F. Bartolozzi Sculp."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1978.43.642
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- actress | bust | crook, shepherd's | flowers (plants) | garlands | hills | lyre | mask | monument | pearls | performance | pipes | religious and mythological subject | ribbon | roses (plant) | sandals | sash | skirts | stage | stream | tambourine | theater (discipline) | trees | woman | woman
- Associated People:
- Abington, Frances (1737–1815), actress
- Access:
- View by request in the Study Room [Request]
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