Maria Countess of Coventry [graphic]

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Title: Maria Countess of Coventry [graphic]
Creator: Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
Contributor: Cotes, Francis, 1726-1770, artist.
Bowles, John, 1701-1779, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1753 and 1766]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Jno. Bowles at the Black Horse in Cornhill
Abstract: "Portrait; half-length standing to left, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a sprigged gown with lacing at the bodice, and a cloak which flutters behind her; her hair dressed up with tresses falling behind the nape of her neck; in an oval frame."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image.
Artist and state from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2388.
Mounted on leaf numbered 45 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm.
Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Provenance: Gift of Susan Dwight Bliss to Yale University Library; to Farmington February 1954. Purchased from Charles Scribner's Sons, 3 March 1903 by Mrs. G.T. Bliss.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 225 x 325 mm, on sheet 255 x 355 mm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1753
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760,
Subjects: Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760
England > London > 1753

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