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Portrait of the actress, when Miss Brunton, in profile facing left, wearing a feathered headress and veil, within a frame with dramatic masks in the top corners.
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Title: Miss Brunton as Horatia (in "The Roman Father")
Artist:
Anonymous, British, 18th century
Publisher:
Thomas Watson (British, London 1743–1781 London)
Author:
Related playwright William Whitehead (British, 1715–1785)
Sitter:
Anne Brunton Merry (British, London 1769–1808 Alexandria, Virginia)
Date: November 2, 1785
Medium: Etching and stipple; printed in red ink
Dimensions:
Plate: 5 1/16 × 3 7/8 in. (12.9 × 9.9 cm)
Sheet: 5 11/16 × 4 3/16 in. (14.4 × 10.7 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917
Accession Number: 17.3.756-1824
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