[The Dancing Nymphs.]
P: V.p [sic] Werff pinx.t An.o 1717. Edv.s Fisher sculp.t Londini, 1777. [London: E. Fisher, c.1777.] Mezzotint, third state printed without the additional separate inscription plate(?), scarce; 430 x 320mm. 17 x 12½". Damaged; laid on conservation tissue. Two semi-naked nymphs dancing hand-in-hand, accompanied by a naked youth playing a flute, who sits on a rock in the right foreground, back to the viewer. In a sunlit garden with a herm behind to right. After date after engraver's name altered, and lacking separate inscription plate and title. After a painting by Pieter van der Werff (Dutch, 1665 - 1722) in Dulwich Picture Gallery. See BM 2010,7081.3394.
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