Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, Comtesse de Grignan [graphic]

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Title: Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, Comtesse de Grignan [graphic]
Creator: Petit, Gilles Edme, 1694-1760, printmaker
Published / Created: [not after 1760]
Publication Place: France
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title etched below image.
Place of publication based on printmaker's country of residence; date of publication based on printmaker's death date.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on verso of a drawing mounted on page 66 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.
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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 :
Language: French

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings France 1760
Engravings France 1760
Material: etching and engraving ; oval image 8.1 x 6.8 cm, on sheet 13.1 x 7.8 cm and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Grignan, Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, comtesse de, 1646-1705,
Subjects: Grignan, Françoise Marguerite de Sévigné, comtesse de, 1646-1705
France > 1760
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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