A progress of female virtue / engraved by A. Cardon from original drawings by Mrs. Cosway.
Published / Created:
London : Pub. April 10. 1800, at R. Ackermann's, Repository of Arts, No. 101, Strand, 1800.
Physical Description:
[1], 8 leaves of plates : all ill. ; 28 x 35 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts N7630 .C67 1800+ Copy 1 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts N7630 .C67 1800+ Copy 2 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon CollectionRare Books and Manuscripts N7630 .C67 1800+ Copy 3 OversizeYale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Related Content:
View a selection of digital images in the Yale Center for British Art's online catalogue
https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/orbis:3294606
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 270Cosway created a complementary series of illustrations, also published by Ackermann in 1800, titled: Progress of female dissipation.Aquatints by Anthony Cardon; after Maria Hadfield Cosway. Title leaf engraved byb I. Girtin.Engraved throughout and printed on tinted paper to give a midtone.Fairman, Elisabeth R. Pleasures and pastimes, 36BAC: British Art Center has three copies, all of which are paired with Cosway's Progress of female dissipation. Copy 1 bound in later boards; original printed title label (on blue paper) affixed to front cover. Copy 2 bound (in a single volume) with the dissipation series; bound by Rivière. With hand-coloring. Bookplate of Merton Russell Cotes. Copy 3 is the Abbey copy. Bound in contemporary brown paper boards, with red cloth back and corners.A series of moral illustrations. Consists of title leaf and eight numbered aquatint engravings, all hand-finished. Each engraved plate includes two lines of verse explaining the virtuous task in which the girl or woman is engaged.
Exhibition History:
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29)
Subject Terms:
Women -- Pictorial works. | Women -- Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800. | Cotes, Merton Russell -- Bookplate. | Rivière -- Bookbinding -- 1800.
