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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;moreotherstuff, post: 47126, member: 56&quot;]There are two different versions with lettering.&nbsp; The lettering on one is completely different from the lettering on the other.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the first, I’m talking about the lettering immediately under the image, not the penciled notes below the plate line.</p><ol> <li><a href="http://artimage.princeton.edu/files/ProductionJpegs/INV36637.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artimage.princeton.edu/files/ProductionJpegs/INV36637.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://artimage.princeton.edu/files/ProductionJpegs/INV36637.jpg</a></li> </ol><p><br /></p><p>On the second, the printing is a much more formal title.&nbsp; This is the image shown in Fig’s link.</p><ol> <li><a href="http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/files/styles/tms_object_media_lightbox/public/imagecache/external/5c077b89b78ad7edefb45d0ba01068f8.jpg?itok=3LMuRT39" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/files/styles/tms_object_media_lightbox/public/imagecache/external/5c077b89b78ad7edefb45d0ba01068f8.jpg?itok=3LMuRT39" rel="nofollow">http://artmuseum.princeton.edu/files/styles/tms_object_media_lightbox/public/imagecache/external/5c077b89b78ad7edefb45d0ba01068f8.jpg?itok=3LMuRT39</a></li> </ol><p><br /></p><p>Before that second image was lettered, the printing on the first image was erased and proofs were pulled.&nbsp; Those proofs are what you have and what the British Museum has (at least so far as I can see).&nbsp; The erasing of the lettering from the first image was not 100%.&nbsp; Traces of that lettering remain and can be seen below the image on the lower right of your print and on the British Museum print.</p><p><br /></p><p>When the British Museum says “proof before lettering” they mean proof before the formal title was added as shown in the Fig’s example. </p><p><br /></p><p>The one shown in Fig’s link, the one with the formal title, came after yours.</p><p><br /></p><p>I doubt it makes much difference.&nbsp; All the versions were probably produced within a very short time period, circa 1764.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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