Print made by John Faber the Younger, ca. 1695–1756, Netherlandish, active in Britain, Boy Lighting a Candle, 1751
- Title:
- Boy Lighting a Candle
- Date:
- 1751
- Materials & Techniques:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 12 15/16 × 8 7/8 inches (32.8 × 22.5 cm), Image: 10 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches (26.7 x 22.3 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed on verso in graphite, lower center: "349"
Lettered in black ink, lower left: "Gody,, Schalcken Pinxt,, Wm,, Shipley Delint. | Sold at the Golden Head by the Church Bloomsbury Square."; lower center: "Done from the Original Painting at Altrop, in the Collection of JOHN SPENCER Esq. | To Whom this Plate is humbly Dedicated, | by His Obliged & most humble,, Servt,, | John Faber"; lower right: "J. Faber fecit 1751."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.884
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- blowing | boy | candle | candleholder | chiaroscuro | child | figure study | fire | genre subject | holder | moon | night | smoke
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:22575
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