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Serena

Title: Serena [print] / Drawn by Adam Buck. Engraved by Wright & Zieglar.
Author: Buck, Adam, 1759-1833.
Publication: [London? : William Holland?, ca. 1799]

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Still image	Permit needed	Pforz (FF. O-006)	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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1 print : hand-colored aquatint with engraved text; plate mark (32.5 x 25 cm), design (24 x 20 cm)

Summary

Print shows a young woman seated on a striped couch, wearing a white dress and a mobcap. Her right hand turns the page of a book in her lap; her left hand reaches under her dress. Below the the title is engraved: "No sin with her to cast a private glance / O'er the dear pages of a new romance. / Eager in fiction's touching scenes to find / A field to exercise her youthful mind. / The touching scenes new energy imprest / On all the virtues of her feeling breast."

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Aquatints (prints)

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Bears no imprint; a known otherwise identical work carries the following imprint: "London Published by William Holland. No.50, Oxford Street, April. 10. 1799."

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