- Title:
- Infancy (Francis George Hare)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Iconographie Anglaise par Reynolds et Autres
- Date:
- 1790
- Materials & Techniques:
- Etching and stipple engraving on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 14 × 10 7/16 inches (35.6 × 26.5 cm), Plate: 9 13/16 × 7 3/4 inches (24.9 × 19.7 cm), Image: 5 7/8 × 4 7/8 inches (14.9 × 12.4 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in graphite, lower right: "Vol.3.P.159"; inscribed in graphite, lower center: "Francis George Hare"
Lettered, lower left: "Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. | O Life! how pleasant in thy merning, | Young Fancy's rays the hills adoring; | Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning, | We frisk away, | Like school-boys at th'expected warning, | To joy & play."; lettered, lower right: "Engrav'd by R.Thew. | We wander there, see wander here, | We eye the rose upon the brier, | Unmindful that the thorn is near, | Among the leaves, | And tho' the puny wound appear, | Short while it grieves. | Burn's Poems, Pa.113."; lettered, lower center: "INFANCY. | Publish'd Mar.25,1790, by J.&J.Boydell, Cheapside & at the Shakspeare Gallery, Pall Mall.London."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1977.14.9983
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- portrait
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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Print made by Robert Thew, 1758–1802, British, Infancy (Francis George Hare), 1790
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