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The Knitting Girl.

The Knitting Girl.Th'industrious Maid since such are found so scarce, / Deserves her Picture, and to live in Verse.

Gerard Douw Pinx.t. R. Purcell fecit.
Pritned for Henry Parker & Eliz.th Bakewell, opposite Birchin Lane in Cornhill.
Mezzotint, very fine impression, 355 x 250mm (14 x 9¾"), with good margins. Some slight foxing, slightly creased.
A young woman knitting, seen three-quarter length through a trompe-l'oeil marble arched frame, seated wearing a gown with large sleeves, lace-trimmed fichu and widow-peak cap. From a set of four domestic scenes after Dou and Metzu.
[Ref: 52967]  £420.00


 

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