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A Select Party (Primary Title)
Sketches for College Rooms (Series Title)

Charles Loraine Smith, English, 1751 - 1835 (Artist)

19th century
English
Prints
Works On Paper
Hand-colored etching and aquatint on wove paper
European Art
Sheet: 9 5/8 × 11 9/16 in. (24.45 × 29.37 cm)
Plate: 7 15/16 × 9 7/8 in. (20.16 × 25.08 cm)
Image: 5 15/16 × 8 1/2 in. (15.08 × 21.59 cm)
85.1289.1
Not on view
Signed in plate lower left: L Lorain Smith (son of Charles Lorain Smith, to whom the work is attributed)
Printed beneath image in center: A SELECT PARTY. / "Happy the man who with unrivall'd speed, / "Can pass his fellows, and with pleasure view / "The struggling Pack"/ Published by Harraden & Son Cambridge. Inscribed in graphite on verso: "Smith", "HRH 11 / 20/1"; and "1".
Paul Mellon Collection
Image released via Creative Commons CC-BY-NC

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