Miss Thellusson

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Artist/Maker	Watson, James (engraver) Sayer, Robert (publisher) Falconet, Pierre Etienne (artist)
Place of origin	London (published)

Tthree-quarter-length portrait of the sitter when a young girl, standing in a landscape with a dog and facing half right. To the right is a tree and rose bush. The sitter is holding a leaf in her left hand.

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Categories	Prints Portraits Children & Childhood
Object type	Print
Title	Miss Thellusson (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Mezzotint Mezzotint
Brief description	Print, three-quarter-length portrait of Nannette Thellusson when a child, in a landscape with a dog. Mezzotint by James Watson after Pierre Etienne Falconet, late 18th century.
Physical description	Tthree-quarter-length portrait of the sitter when a young girl, standing in a landscape with a dog and facing half right. To the right is a tree and rose bush. The sitter is holding a leaf in her left hand.
Dimensions	Cut to height: 34.3cm Cut to width: 25.1cm Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style	British School
Copy number	1st state
Marks and inscriptions	'Miss Theulluson. Falconet pinxt. Watson fecit.' (Lettered)
Credit line	Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Historical context	Nannette Thellusson was the daughter of the merchant Peter Thellusson (1737-1797).
Production	This print was engraved sometime before 1780.
Subjects depicted	Landscape Rose Dog Girl Child Thellusson, Nannette
Bibliographic reference	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.654-1959

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568479/miss-thellusson-print-watson-james/

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