M. Lady Hervey [graphic]

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Title: M. Lady Hervey [graphic]
Alternative Title: Mary Lady Hervey
Creator: Watelet, Claude-Henri, 1718-1786, printmaker
Contributor: Cochin, Charles Nicolas, 1715-1790, artist.
Published / Created: [1752]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Portrait of Lady Mary Hervey of Ickworth; bust length in profile to right; wearing cap; in oval within rectangular panel; after CN Cochin; private plate; scratched letter."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text in image.
Mounted on page 62 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.
1 print : etching on laid paper ; sheet 18.5 x 12.5 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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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 : plate mark 19.9 x 14.3 cm, on sheet 32.8 x 23.7 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1752
Material: etching ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Hervey, Mary Hervey, Baroness, 1699 or 1700-1768
Subjects: Hervey, Mary Hervey, Baroness, 1699 or 1700-1768 > Portraits
England > London > 1752
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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