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Nancy Dawson
- Title
- Nancy Dawson [graphic] / James Watson fecit.
- Author
- Watson, James, 1740-1790.
- Publication
- London : printed for John Bowles, [176-?]
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- Description
- 1 print : mezzotint, b&w; 27 x 20 cm., plate mark 15 x 12 cm.
- Summary
- Half-length portrait of Nancy Dawson, leaning on a banister.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Portraits.
- Mezzotints.
- Biography (note)
- Nancy Dawson was a dancer and actress in mid-eighteenth century London. She was perhaps best known for dancing the hornpipe.
- The British printmaker James Watson was born in Dublin and moved to London in the 1750s. His birth year has not been confirmed, and has been variously conjectured as 1735, 1739, or 1740.
- Call Number
- *MGZFB Daw N P 2
- OCLC
- 790619443
- Author
- Watson, James, 1740-1790.
- Title
- Nancy Dawson [graphic] / James Watson fecit.
- Imprint
- London : printed for John Bowles, [176-?]
- Biography
- Nancy Dawson was a dancer and actress in mid-eighteenth century London. She was perhaps best known for dancing the hornpipe.The British printmaker James Watson was born in Dublin and moved to London in the 1750s. His birth year has not been confirmed, and has been variously conjectured as 1735, 1739, or 1740.
- Local Note
- Cataloging funds provided by Friends of Jerome Robbins Dance Division.For a similar image, attributed to Charles Spooner, see: *MGZFB Daw N P 1.
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- Research Call Number
- *MGZFB Daw N P 2