Inscribed: "The Witty Dorinda. -- Her wit is penetrating clear and gay; / But let true judgment and right reason sway / For when she rallies, 'tis with so much art, / We blush with pleasure, and with rapture smart. -- London, Printed for Robt. Sayer, Map, Chart & Printseller No. 53 Fleet Street, as the Act directs Jany. 20; 1787." Summary: three-quarter length oval portrait of a young girl in immense hat with long curly hair; arms crossed at her stomach.
Image used to illustrate "Stipple, Dot, and Chalk Engravings." Illustration technique referred to as "The Chalk Style" and "Dotted Engraving" by Stannard in text (columns 31-32); also called crayon manner etching or stipple engraving (see Gascoigne, How to Identify Prints, 14a-b). Coloring technique described by Stannard in text (column 34); technique is called à la poupée (see Gascoigne, How to Identify Prints, 26a).
Extent
1 print : color etching ; plate mark 283 x 243 mm
Related Resource
Grolier Club, The Art Exemplar, by William Stannard, [1859]