Maria Countess of Waldegrave, and her daughter Lady Elizabeth Laura [graphic]

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Title: Maria Countess of Waldegrave, and her daughter Lady Elizabeth Laura [graphic]
Creator: Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Contributor: Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1766 and 1779]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Abstract: "Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1903); half-length seated to right, looking at her young daughter curled up against her chest, and wrapping her in ermine-lined mantle."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1881,1112.231.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 74 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 15.1 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Group portraits
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1766
Material: mezzotint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807,
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura, 1760-1816,
Subjects: Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura, 1760-1816
England > London > 1766
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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