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NURS'D at HOME

Engraving
01/06/1796 (publication)
Artist/Maker
Jeffryes, I (publisher)
Strutt, I (stipple engraver)
Stothard, Thomas RA (artist)
Place of origin
London (publication)

Colour printed stipple engraving (one of a pair). The engraving shows a mother wearing a pink gown with a green sash and white cap and fichu, seated on a stool hugging the child on her lap: the child has short curly hair and wears a white gown, and is hugging its mother in return. A woman in a fawn gown with a white fichu, probably the child's nurse, bends over them both solicitously.

Object details

Object type
Engraving
TitleNURS'D at HOME (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Colour printed stipple engraving on white paper
Paper
Colour Printing
Stipple Engraving
Brief description
Colour printed stipple engraving entitled 'Nurs'd at Home', engraved by Strutt after Stothard; English, 1796
Physical description
Colour printed stipple engraving (one of a pair). The engraving shows a mother wearing a pink gown with a green sash and white cap and fichu, seated on a stool hugging the child on her lap: the child has short curly hair and wears a white gown, and is hugging its mother in return. A woman in a fawn gown with a white fichu, probably the child's nurse, bends over them both solicitously.
Dimensions
  • Dealer's measurements prior to sealing item in frame height: 10in
  • Dealer's measurements prior to sealing item in frame width: 8in
Modern reproduction frame measures 34.8 x 29.2 cm
Production typeMass produced
Marks and inscriptions
  • T. Stothard Pinxt. (Maker's identification; English and Latin; Roman upper and lower case; Bottom left corner; printing; printing ink)
    Translation
    T Stothard painted (it), i e the original from which the engraving was made
  • LONDON Published June 1 1796 by I Jeffryes Ludgate Hill (Publisher's identification; English (although the initial I is probably a Latinisation of 'J'); Roman upper and lower case; Centre of lower edge; printing; printing ink)
  • I. Strutt Sculpt. (Maker's identification; English and Latin; Roman upper and lower case; Bottom right corner; printing; printing ink)
    Translation
    I. (probably Joseph) Strutt engraved (it)
Historical context
The image comments on the closer mother/ child relationship achievable when both shared the parental home. Its pair 'Nurs'd Abroad' contrasts the effect on the mother/ child relationship of the once fashionable custom of sending babies away to be breastfed by a wet nurse at her home. These children were better looked after than the foundling children also 'out at nurse', but many of the parents and children may have been strangers to each other.
Production
Publisher's firm was situated at Ludgate Hill

Reason For Production: Retail
Subject depicted
Childcare
Associated object
B.247-1998 (Source)
Collection
Young V&A Collection
Accession number
B.248-1998

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Record createdSeptember 4, 1998
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O8934/nursd-at-home-engraving-strutt-i/
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