Original 1783 burin engraving, a double portrait from the tête-à-tête series of the Town and Country Magazine, which each month paired in two ovals a gentleman and his mistress under nicknames and surnames veiled by dashes. Here, Lady B__nt__n (no. XIII) and The irresistible Captain (no. XIV).
Original 1783 burin engraving, a double portrait from the tête-à-tête series of the Town and Country Magazine, which each month paired in two ovals a gentleman and his mistress under nicknames and surnames veiled by dashes. Here, Lady B__nt__n (no. XIII) and The irresistible Captain (no. XIV).
Medium: Copper engraving (burin).
Date: 1 June 1783.
Source: Town and Country Magazine, or Universal Repository of Knowledge, Instruction, and Entertainment, London, published by A. Hamilton Junr., Fleet Street.
Dimensions: Plate mark 4.3 x 6.9 in (11 x 17.5 cm).
Condition: Sound. Paper with general toning and light foxing spots scattered about, visible in the photograph; upper edge somewhat irregular from the unbinding. Clean image, without tears.