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Jersey Nanny

Jersey Nanny

(American, 1727–1792)
1748
Medium/TechniqueMezzotint
DimensionsSheet: 24.4 x 19.7 cm (9 5/8 x 7 3/4 in.)
Credit LineGift of Henry Lee Shattuck
Accession number1971.715
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ClassificationsPrints
InscriptionsIn plate, below image: Nature her various skill displays / In thousand shapes, a thousand Ways; / Tho' one Form differs from another, / She's still of all the common Mother: / Then, Ladies, let not Pride resist her, / But own that NANNY is your Sister. In plate, below image, lower left: Greenwood ad vivum pinxt. et fecit In plate, below image, lower right: Printed by J Turner for J Buck & Sold by him at the Spectacles in Queen Street Boston
ProvenanceGoodspeed's Bookshop, Boston; before 1934, to Henry Lee Shattuck (Brookline, MA); 1971, gift of Henry Lee Shattuck to the MFA. (Accession Date: December 8, 1971)