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Miss Lydia Hone – "Her beauty hangs on the Cheek of Night, like a rich Jewel in an Ethiop's Ear"

John Raphael Smith|Nathaniel Hone|R. Marshall|Lydia Hone|William Shakespeare

November 30, 1771

Attribution
|After| | | John Raphael Smith|Nathaniel Hone|R. Marshall|Lydia Hone|William Shakespeare | | | | British, baptized Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster|Irish, Dublin 1718–1784 London|London|British, 1758–1773|British, Stratford-upon-Avon 1564–1616 Stratford-upon-Avon
Medium
Mezzotint; third state of three
Physical dimensions
Plate: 13 11/16 × 9 11/16 in. (34.8 × 24.6 cm) Sheet: 14 3/16 × 10 3/16 in. (36 × 25.9 cm)
Credit line
Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
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