The GOOD HOUSE-WIFE.
Dateca. 1745
Publisher
Carington Bowles
1724 - 1793
OriginEngland, London
MediumBlack and white mezzotint with period hand color
DimensionsOH: 18 1/8" x OW: 11 1/2"; Plate H: 13 7/8" x W: 9 3/4"
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number1958-357
DescriptionThe lower margin reads: "The GOOD HOUSE-WIFE./ Woman, when virtuous, free from Sloth & Vice,/ Greater by far, than Rubies is her price:/ Heaven crowns her Labour with a penteous Store,/ To feed her Houshold, and relieve the Poor./ Printed for CARINTON BOWLES, Map & Printseller, at N.o 69 in S.t Pauls Church Yard, LONDON."ProvenanceBefore 1958, F. & G. Staack (Camden, Maine); 1958-present, purchased by the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation (Williamsburg, VA).
1760-1763