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Frances Bridges Countess of Exeter
Title
Frances Bridges Countess of Exeter [graphic] / Van Dyck pinx. ; John Ogborne sc.
Edition
[Scratched-letter proof].
Publication
[London] : Pub. March 1st by J. Thane, [1 March 1777]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and engraving ; sheet 25.8 x 20 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title in scratched letters below image.
Proof state with scratched lettering. For published state with title, statements of responsibility, and publication line re-etched, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.308.
Engraved after a copy by Richardson, as indicated by the text "from a picture by Richardson after Van Dyke in the possession of I. Thane" on published state of the plate. The original painting by Van Dyck, formerly owned by Richardson, was acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill.
Year of publication from imprint statement on published state: Pub. March 1st, 1777, by J. Thane, Gerrard Street, Soho.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark and imprint statement erased from sheet. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum.
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, three-quarter length, turned slightly to right, in widow's robe, seated in a chair before a curtain, holding gloves; after Richardson after Van Dyck."--British Museum online catalogue.
Variant and related titles
Frances Brydges Countess of Exeter
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. 2, page 183
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait prints.
Engravings - England - London - 1777.
Etchings - England - London - 1777.
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