The Right Honble. Frances Lady Byron [graphic]

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Title: The Right Honble. Frances Lady Byron [graphic]
Alternative Title: Right Honorable Frances Lady Byron
Creator: Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Contributor: Hogarth, William, 1697-1764, artist.
Published / Created: [1736]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by Faber at the Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square
Abstract: A reduced plate of a portrait of The Right Honourable Frances Lady Byron shown less than full length looking right and pulling on a glove. The dog at her feet is gone and the ducks in the background have been reworked
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
On page 83 in volume 1. Mounted on secondary support with ruled black ink border to: 37.8 x 27.2 cm.
Provenance: George Steevens bequeathed this collection to William Windham (1750-1810). At Windham's death, the collection was put up for sale on 20 July 1810 and was bought in by Mrs. Windham at 292 guineas; by descent through the Windham family; Sotheby's, 17 February 1919 to Dyson Perrins for £400; Sotheby's sale including Property of the Late C.W. Dyson Perrins, Esq., 11 June 1959, lot 100 purchased by Maggs Bros. for W.S. Lewis for £1300.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35 x 24.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1736
Material: mezzotint ;
Subject (Name): Byron, Frances Berkeley, Lady, -1757
Subjects: Byron, Frances Berkeley, Lady, -1757 > Portraits
England > London > 1736
Steevens, George, 1736-1800 > Ownership
Perrins, Charles William Dyson, 1864-1958 > Ownership

Access: Public
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