The modern Flora [graphic]

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Title: The modern Flora [graphic]
Contributor: Robinson, John, 1727-1802, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1710 and 1756]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer, opposite Fetter Lane Fleet Street
Abstract: "Portrait of Isabel, Countess of Cromartie, half-length, directed to left, facing and looking to front, arranging a basket of flowers in front of her, pearls in her hair, a shawl billowing from under her right elbow, round and behind her, lock of hair over right shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from caption below image.
"Not all the sweets that spring perfume's, nor all that in the garden bloom's; nor e'en the breeze of sum[m]er sky, can with her fragrant bosom vie."-- Verse in four lines and two columns below title.
Cf. State 2 from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits. Engravers name burnished from plate.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1879,0111.11.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on leaf numbered 46 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 22.2 x 33 cm
Edition: [Unrecorded state].
Language: English

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