Miss Farren [graphic]

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Title: Miss Farren [graphic]
Creator: Collyer, Joseph, 1748-1827, printmaker
Contributor: Downman, John, 1750-1824, artist.
Published / Created: Feby. 14, 1788.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for M. Lawson, No. 168 Strand
Abstract: "Portrait of Elizabeth Farren, Countess of Derby; half length, to the front, looking to the right; her hair in large curls; wearing dress with bow and sash; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of statement of responsibility and complete loss of imprint from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: K,59.201.
Mounted on page 221 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 : oval image 22.6 x 19.1 cm, on sheet 25.7 x 20.6 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1788
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829,
Subjects: Farren, Elizabeth, 1762-1829
England > London > 1788
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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