The Rt. Honble. Catharine Compton Countess of Egmont, daughter of Charles Compton Esqr. and sister to Spencer Compton, now Earl of Northampton with Master Charles Perceval her eldest son

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Description

Title: The Rt. Honble. Catharine Compton Countess of Egmont, daughter of Charles Compton Esqr. and sister to Spencer Compton, now Earl of Northampton with Master Charles Perceval her eldest son
Alternative Title: The Right Honourable Catharine Compton
Creator: McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Contributor: Hudson, Thomas, 1701-1779, artist.
Published / Created: publ'd. accordg. to act of Parliamt. 1765.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait, three-quarter length, of the Countess of Egmont, seated three-quarter to right wearing ermine-trimmed robes, looking towards the viewer, holding her eldest son on a table in front of her, left arm behind his back, right hand on his feet, as he sits facing her, looking towards the viewer, holding her crown in front of him, against her chest."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text below image, in three lines on either side of crest.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on leaf numbered 6 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 276 x 380 mm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Collection Date: [England], [between 1684 and 1799?]

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1765
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subjects: England > London > 1765

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 12268469
Object ID (OID): 16194690