[Engraved by Charles Spooner after Richard Wilson & Richard Houston.]
[n.d., c.1780.]
Fine mezzotint, proof before letters. 155 x 115mm (6 x 4½"). Small margins.
'Night' from a set of Times of Day. A young woman with a gauzy veil draped over her cap and falling down her left side, glancing sleepily through it at the viewer, her hands folded in her lap, books on the table beside her. A version of the mezzotint by Richard Houston after Richard Wilson, lacking the background detail.
See BM: 2010,7081.446 for the Houston version. Ex Collection of the Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 37727]  £240.00