Margaret "Peg" Woffington [graphic] / after John Lewis.
1753
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Title
Margaret "Peg" Woffington [graphic] / after John Lewis.
Created/published
ca. 1753.
Description
1 painting : oil on canvas ; 30 x 25 in. (76.4 x 64 cm)
Material base
canvas
Note
Versions: See Pressly Catalogue, p. 210.
Title from Pressly.
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Engravings: Mezzotint by Michael Jackson, reverses composition (this is presumably the source of the attribution to Jackson in the 1912 sale catalogue)
New York Times, 28 November 1912; Fink 1959, p. 213.
New York Times, 28 November 1912; Fink 1959, p. 213.
Provenance
Provenance: Collection of Augustin Daly (on exhibit at Daly's Theatre in New York)
Source of acquisition
Daly sale, Anderson Galleries, Continuation of Anderson Auction Company, Madison Ave. at 40th St., New York [1915]; 489 Park Ave. at 59th St. [1917]; from September 1929 combined with American Art Association, 27 November 1912, lot 54, as by Jackson, repr., $115 plus 10 percent commission, Smith acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Board, "Eighteenth- and Nineteenth Century English Painting," 1976-1977, no. 29, as by Artist Unknown, formerly attributed to John Lewis.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 117
Genre/form
Portrait paintings.
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPb10 (E. Johnson office)
Folger-specific note
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