Woman Resting Her Head on a Book

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Woman Resting Her Head on a Book, 1770. Etching and aquatint in brown on buff laid paper.

Etching and aquatint in brown on buff laid paper · Plate: 19.2 × 15.8 cm · Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum title: Woman Resting Her Head on a Book
Artist: Angelica Kauffmann Swiss, 1741-1807
Date: 1770
Medium: Etching and aquatint in brown on buff laid paper
Dimensions: Plate: 19.2 × 15.8 cm (7 9/16 × 6 1/4 in.); Sheet: 21.6 × 17.6 cm (8 9/16 × 6 15/16 in.)
Credit line: Gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection
Image license: CC0 1.0 · Public domain
Museum record: Art Institute of Chicago

Artist’s life 1741–1807

Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.