A young woman in love clasps her hands against her heart; representing the sense of touch. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1830, after C.-M. Dubufe.

  • Dubufe, Claude-Marie, 1790-1864.
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1st May, 1830
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563686i
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A young woman in love clasps her hands against her heart; representing the sense of touch. Mezzotint by S.W. Reynolds, 1830, after C.-M. Dubufe. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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London (44 Greek Street, Soho Sqe.) : Giraldon-Bovinet, 1st May, 1830.

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1 print : mezzotint ; image 27 x 21.5 cm

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Feeling. Le toucher. Dubufe, pinxt. S.W. Reynolds, sculpt.

Notes

One work in a series entitled "The senses" which Reynolds engraved in mezzotint after Dubufe in 1830: see McIntosh, op. cit. p. 75, n. 67

References note

"Delacroix wrote to a fellow artist [Hippolyte Poterlet]: 'Mr Reynolds will be pleased to have some of your sketches ... he has to engrave innumerable horrors by Dubufe and company'": McIntosh, op. cit., pp. 68-69
DeCourcy E. McIntosh, 'The origins of the Maison Goupil in the age of Romanticism', The British art journal, 2004, 5: 64-76

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Wellcome Collection 563686i

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