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The Honble. Mrs. Parker
Title
The Honble. Mrs. Parker [graphic] / painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; engrav'd by Thomas Watson.
Publication
[London] : Publish'd. Octr. 25th 1773 for S. Hooper No. 25 Ludgate Street; W. Shropshire No. 158 & T. Watson No. 142 New Bond Street, [25 October 1773]
Physical Description
1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 61.9 x 39 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title engraved in image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark. Bottom corners trimmed at an angle.
Provenance
Owned by Horace Walpole. Sold at the 1842 Strawberry Hill sale, lot 619, day 5.
Summary
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1396); whole-length, standing directed to front, head turned in profile to right, leaning with her right elbow on a pedestal bearing a large urn, her left hand on her right arm; hair high and curled, a robe over her dress; a woodland landscape behind with stream to right"--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Honourable Mrs. Parker
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 20, 2012
References
Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of prints and drawings in the British museum, v. 4, p. 517
Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, 86
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Mezzotints - England - London - 1773.
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