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Thank you so much for these additional posts Carole - your insights and images, as Thomas says, are a wonderful and fascinating education. I remember we discussed Kitty Fisher beads long ago on the BCN but I think your original posts are no longer available so your posts are especially appreciated. You prompted me to Google more on Kitty Fisher and I found the following portrait of her, as you mentioned, by Joshua Reynolds and the following which reiterates your wonderful description and also mentions her nursery rhyme fame and sad demise from lead-based cosmetic poisoning no less! Kitty Fisher, Catherine Maria (‘Kitty’) Fisher (died 1767) was one of the most renowned courtesans in London. She was known for her beauty, brave horsemanship and wit. In 1766 she married a John Norris, and became known for her charity. She died the next year as a result of poisoning by lead-based cosmetics. She was a model for several painters, including Sir Joshua Reynolds, Nathaniel Hone, Philip Mercier and James Northcote. Her name is known to us from childhood due to the nursery rhyme “Lucy Locket lost a pocket, Kitty Fisher found it…” - from http://www.abcgallery.com/R/reynolds/reynoldsbio.html#KittyFisher All rights reserved by Bead Collector Network and its users |
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