Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]

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Title: Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]
Contributor: Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, artist.
Herbert, Isaac, active 1793-1798, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 December 1794]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Published 1st December 1794 by I. Herbert, No. 29 Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury
Abstract: "Portrait of Mary of Guise, half-length, slightly turned to the left, one hand at her breast and the other on a cushion to the foreground, dressed in an ornately embroidered gown with ermine-trimmed sleeves, ropes of pearls about her neck and a small headdress on her head."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Plate from: Pinkerton, J. Iconographia Scotica; or, Portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland. London : I. Herbert, 1797.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 102 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
1 print : stipple engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 15.4 x 12.2 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from bottom edge.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 16.4 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material: stipple engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Mary, Queen, consort of James V, King of Scotland, 1515-1560,
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Mary, Queen, consort of James V, King of Scotland, 1515-1560
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811 > Art collections
England > London > 1794
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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