The Honble. Lady Stanhope [graphic]

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Title: The Honble. Lady Stanhope [graphic]
Alternative Title: Honorable Lady Stanhope
Creator: Basire, James, 1730-1802, printmaker
Contributor: Wilson, Benjamin, 1721-1788, artist.
Published / Created: the first of May 1772.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd according to Act of Parliament
Abstract: "Portrait of Ann de Laval, Countess Stanhope; full-length seated directed to left, wearing mourning and a heavy shawl over her hair, leaning her head on her right hand and looking up and ahead, with a skull, bones, candle and books on the table by her right elbow, a curtain and columns behind to right, surmounted by decorations like crows with wings spread, over a corpse; state with scratched production details"--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Place of publication from printmaker's place of activity.
Description based on imperfect impression; sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Gift of Joseph Verner Reed (Yale 1926) to the Yale Library, 1958. Portions were transferred to Lewis Walpole Library 1960. For other items from this gift refer to Beinecke Library's GEN MSS 1000.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 517 x 355 mm
Language: English

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