Nancy of the Dale: a woman wearing a bonnet, in profile. Stipple engraving, 1784.

Date:
July 8 1784
Reference:
2475424i
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Description

Apparently a portrait of a camp follower (soldier's sweetheart or prostitute). "Nancy of the Dale" is a song about a woman attached to a soldier in military service. It formed part of the play The camp by R.B. Sheridan (1778). The verses in the lettering are quoted from the poem Autumn by James Thomson (1730)

Publication/Creation

[London] (3 Piccadilly) : S.W. Fores, July 8 1784.

Physical description

1 print : stipple engraving, in circle ; image and border diameter 8.6 cm

Lettering

Nancy of the Dale. For loveliness / Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, / But is when unadorn'd adorn'd the most.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 11648i

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