| Method | Mezzotint with hand colouring, Glass Print |
| Artist | James Wilson after Johann Kaspar Heilman |
| Published | London Printed for Robt. Sayer Map & Printseller , at the Golden Buck near Serjeants Inn Fleet Street. [n.d. c. 1760-70] |
| Dimensions | Image 285 x 240 mm, Sheet 330 x 220 mm |
| Notes |
An uncommon mezzotint glass print of a fashionably dressed woman seated turned three quarters to left sewing a piece of stripped fabric, with a small table with a sewing boxes and a ball of thread on it, and a curtain behind. Part of a larger set of prints on women's domestic jobs. James Wilson (fl. 1764-74) mezzotint engraver working in London. Nothing is known of his life except through his work. Chaloner Smith attributes 24 mezzotints done by him between 1764 and 1774, Johann Kaspar Heilman (1718-1760) was Swiss genre painter. He was student of the Swiss painter Hans Kaspar Deggeler in Schaffhausen. He worked in Basle and then awarded a stipendium to Rome. French ambassador Cardinal de Tencin took him back to Paris in 1742, where part of the Wille circle and lived till his death. |
| Framing | framed |
| Price | £550.00 |
| Stock ID | 52316 |