Maria, Countess of Waldegrave [graphic]

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Title: Maria, Countess of Waldegrave [graphic]
Creator: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Published / Created: publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1762.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "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; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.
Final state of the plate with title, artist and printmaker names, and publication line present; this represents the third state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 108 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.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 39.6 x 29 cm
Edition: [State 4].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1762
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1762
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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