Illustrations to Pamela

Hubert Francois Gravelot 1699 - 1773

Summary

A reproduction produced by the Vasari Society of a drawing by Hubert François Gravelot. The drawing is of a lady extending her hand through the bars in a gate to have her fortune told by a gipsy woman. She is accompanied by two other ladies, one of whom she is facing towards. The gate is tall and ornate. A tree and the corner of a building can be seen in the background. This drawing is on the same sheet as 1933.451. Text from the accompanying booklet produced by the Vasari Society: "Nos. 27, 28 HUBERT FRANÇOIS GRAVELOT (b. 1699; d. 1778) TWO ILLUSTRATIONS TO PAMELA 27. A gipsy telling the fortunes of Pamela and Mrs. Jewkes, while Nan, the maid, brings food for her. 28. Pamela's son, Billy, brought to her by the nurse. Collection of Captain E. G. Spencer Churchill, Northwick Park. Pen and ink, and sepia wash. (27) 13 x 7.8 cm. (5 1/8 x 3 1/8 in.); (28) 12.8 x 7.6 cm. (5 1/6 x 3 in.). Both drawings are indented for transfer, and were engraved in reverse by Gravelot for the 6th edition of Samuel Richardson's Pamela, 1742 (4 vols. 8VO). (27) Vol. iv, p. 372. Six other drawings for the series are in the British Museum, and one in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (for Vol. iv. p. 475). The book contains in all twenty-nine plates engraved by Gravelot, seventeen being original designs, the rest after F. Hayman. C. D."