Antoine BENOIST (engraver), Joseph HIGHMORE (after)

Pamela tells a nursery tale
(1745); published 1762
from a series of twelve illustrations to Pamela by Samuel Richardson, 1745, 2nd edition, published by John Boydell, London, 1762

Medium

engraving

Credit Line: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1921

Gallery location: Not on display

Artwork Details

Medium

engraving

Measurements

26.7 × 35.3 cm (image) 29.7 × 37.3 cm (plate) 31.0 × 40.5 cm irreg. (sheet, trimmed within platemark along top edge)

Place/s of Execution

London, England

Inscription

printed in ink Jos. Highmore inv. et pinx. / Pamela with her Children and Miʃs Goodwin to whom she is telling her nursery / tales. This last Piece leaves her in full poʃseʃsion of the peaceable fruits of her Virtue / long after having surmounted all of the difficulties It had been exposed to. / Published, according to Act of Parliament. July 1st. (. under st) 1762
printed in ink Pamela avec ses enfans et Madselle (. under selle) Goodwin, à qui elle conte des historiettes morales. / Ce dernier tableau la laiʃse en pleine poʃseʃsion des fruites paisibles de sa vertu, long / tems après avoir surmonté toutes les difficultés auxquelles elle avoit été éxposée.
printed in ink A. Benoist sculp. / 12.

Accession Number

1119.12-3

Departments

International Prints / International Prints and Drawings

Credit Line

National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Felton Bequest, 1921
This digital record has been made available on NGV Collection Online through the generous support of the Joe White Bequest

Gallery location

Not on display

Subjects (general)

Human Figures Literary and Text Relationships and Interactions

Subjects (specific)

children (people by age group) illustrations (layout features) literary characters nursemaids scenes (depictions) storytelling virtue women (female humans)

Movements

Georgian

Series

Antoine BENOIST (engraver), Joseph HIGHMORE (after)

Pamela tells a nursery tale
(1745); published 1762
from a series of twelve illustrations to Pamela by Samuel Richardson, 1745, 2nd edition, published by John Boydell, London, 1762

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Antoine BENOIST (engraver), Joseph HIGHMORE (after) Pamela tells a nursery tale (1745); published 1762 from a series of twelve illustrations to Pamela by Samuel Richardson, 1745, 2nd edition, published by John Boydell, London, 1762

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Antoine BENOIST (engraver), Joseph HIGHMORE (after)

Pamela tells a nursery tale
(1745); published 1762
from a series of twelve illustrations to Pamela by Samuel Richardson, 1745, 2nd edition, published by John Boydell, London, 1762