Thomas Frye Lot n° 210

Frye (Thomas, portrait painter, mezzotinter and porcelain manufacturer, c. 1710-1762) A fashionable lady, from: 'Ladies, very elegantly attired in the fashion, and in the most agreeable attitudes', mezzotint, an excellent richly inked impression, on laid paper with indistinct text-based watermark and countermark of a Strasbourg lily, platemark 500 x 350 mm (19 3/4 x 13 3/4 in), sheet 520 x 370 mm (20 1/2 x 14 1/2 in), under glass, hinged with tabs onto mount support, faint crease to lower left corner, other minor handling creases, marginal surface dirt and browning, framed in 18th century-style black frame with sand gilt slip, 1761. Literature: Chaloner Smith 23