[Lady Mount Edgcumbe] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Lady Mount Edgcumbe] [graphic].
Contributor: Gillray, James, 1756-1815, printmaker.
Humphrey, William, approximately 1740-approximately 1810, publisher.
Published / Created: [1780?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: William Humphrey
Abstract: Bust portrait in profile to the left of an elderly woman, thin and of witch-like appearance. Her hair which recedes from her forehead is dressed high and ornamented with a lace cap
Description: Title, printmaker, and imprint from later state.
Contemporary ms. note identifying the sitter as Lady Mount Edgcumbe on the Lewis Walpole impression. (Call number: 780.00.00.157).
A variant, without imprint. Cf. no. 5749 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5.
Sitter identified as "Dowager Ldy Edgcumbe" in contemporary manuscript inscription on verso.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 910 x 720 mm, on sheet 13 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Caricatures England 1780
Drypoints England 1780
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: drypoint etching ;
Subject (Name): Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807.
Subjects: Mount Edgcumbe, Emma Gilbert, Lady, 1729-1807
England > 1780
18th century

Access: Public
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