A Vestal Virgin
Engraver William Humphrey British
After Benjamin Wilson British
Publisher Robert Sayer British
Not on view
A woman wearing a cloak and veil holds a ewer and looks back over her shoulder at a burning incense brazier, with a column behind at left. Humphrey who is best known as a print publisher, here demonstrates his skills as a mezzotint engraver, something for which he was awarded premiums by the Society of Arts in 1765 and 1766.
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