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Maria, Countess of Waldegrave
Title
[Maria, Countess of Waldegrave] [graphic] / J. Reynolds pinxt. ; J. McArdell fecit.
Edition
[State 3].
Publication
[London] : [publisher not identified], [1762]
Physical Description
1 print : mezzotint ; sheet 38.4 x 29 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.
Early (proof?) state with artist and printmaker names present but before title and publication line added; this state, undescribed by Smith, represents the third state according to Russell.
Date of publication based on later state with the imprint statement "Publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1762." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill.
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 after Reynolds (Mannings 1896); half-length to right, head almost in profile, wearing a flowered dress and a turban, a plait of hair over her left shoulder; proof before title and publication line."--British Museum online catalogue.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 19, 2018
References
Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 158
Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits, v. 2, no. 184, page 902
Russell, C.E. English mezzotint portraits and their states, v. 2, page 222
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Mezzotints - England - London - 1762.
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