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The First Interview, or Happiness Sacrifised to Riches   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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After: Robert Dighton

Published by: Carington Bowles
Title
The First Interview, or Happiness Sacrifised to Riches
Description
English: The interior of a well-furnished room. A young woman turns aside with a gesture of disgust from a young man of simian appearance who is grinning sheepishly. Her father stands behind her with outstretched arms, pleading desperately for her acceptance of the man. The suitor, holding his hat in both hands, turns away from the lady with an imbecile grin, but is being pushed towards her by a third man, probably his father. Through two sash-windows (left) appear houses and the steeple of a church. Between them is an oval mirror in a carved frame. A landscape hangs on the other wall (right). The floor is carpeted. 1784
Hand-coloured mezzotint
Date 1784
date QS:P571,+1784-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium paper
Dimensions
Height: 351 millimetres
Width: 249 millimetres
institution QS:P195,Q6373
Current location
Prints and Drawings
Accession number
1935,0522.1.136
Notes

Dighton's original watercolour for this print from the collection of Mr Jeffrey Rose was sold at Sotheby's, 23 February 1978, lot 2.

The date, from a lettered state recorded by Christopher Lennox-Boyd, is '2 Feb. 1784.'

Sale catalogue listings

Carington Bowles, 1790, p. 110 no. 525.
Source/Photographer https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/P_1935-0522-1-136
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