The Countess of Dorchester [graphic]

Description

Title: The Countess of Dorchester [graphic]
Creator: Smith, J. (John), 1652-1743, publisher
Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1685 and 1688]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: J. Smith
Abstract: "Portrait of Catherine, Countess of Dorchester, three-quarter length, wearing low dress, seated before a waterfall, and leaning on a thick slab on which are carved Cupids."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: J.C. Smith states "I. Beckett fecit et excudit" erased; instead "I. Smith ex".
Title from caption below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.93.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on leaf numbered 3 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 251 x 340 mm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Access: Public
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