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Accession Number
B1983.3
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Title
Trade Card for Thomas Sandby, Jr.
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Former Title(s)
Thomas Sandby Junior's Trade Card
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Date
1791
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Materials & Techniques
Line engraving and stipple engraving on thick, moderately textured, beige laid paper
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Dimensions
Sheet: 5 13/16 × 5 11/16 inches (14.8 × 14.5 cm), Image: 5 7/16 × 5 9/16 inches (13.8 × 14.1 cm)
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Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering
Lettered in black ink, lower center, within image: "T. SANDBY Junr. | St. Georges Row Oxford Street,"
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Credit Line
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of William Drummond
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Copyright Status
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Classification
Prints
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Collection
Prints and Drawings
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Subject Terms
ancient Greek | artist | bench | costume | curtains | drawing | embracing | fire | flowers (motifs) | lamp | leaves | love | lovers | man | oval | pedestal | portrait | religious and mythological subject | silhouettes | the daughter of Butades, Debutades, draws the silhouette of her lover on the wall, i.e. 'the origin of painting' | trade card | wall | woman
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Associated People
Debutades, daughter of Butades of Sicyon | Sandby, Thomas (bap. 1723, d. 1798), architect and draughtsman
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Access
Accessible in the Study Room [Request]
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Link
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
Susan Rather, The American school : artists and status in the late-colonial and early national era, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2016, pp. 219-20, fig. 163, N6507 .R38 2016 (YCBA) [YCBA]
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