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Anna Chamber, Countess Temple from a portrait by Hamilton in the collection at Strawberry Hill
Title
Anna Chamber, Countess Temple [graphic] : from a portrait by Hamilton in the collection at Strawberry Hill / W. Birrell sculp.
Publication
[London?] : Published by T. Kirgate, 1798.
Physical Description
1 print : stipple engraving ; sheet 16.5 x 13 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Engraved after a drawing by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 246), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Summary
Portrait of Ann Countess Temple; as an older woman; half length face almost in profile to left; wearing frilled fichu and matching cap with a dark scarf around chin.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 29, 2018
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Stipple engravings - England - London - 1798.
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