Maria Scotorvm Regina [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Maria Scotorvm Regina [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Maria Scotorum Regina
- Creator
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
- Contributor
- Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609, artist.
- Published / Created
- [between 1715 and 1756]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title engraved at bottom of image.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558.
Mounted on page 60 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
- Extent
- 1 print : oval sheet 8.6 x 6.7 cm
- Language
-
Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portraits
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1715 - Material
- engraving, hand-colored ;
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
- Subjects
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Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 > Portraits
England > London > 1715
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13439687
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729663