Princess Sophia Matilda, daughter to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester [graphic]
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Lewis Walpole Library > Princess Sophia Matilda, daughter to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester [graphic]
16729690
Description
- Title
- Princess Sophia Matilda, daughter to their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Gloucester [graphic]
- Creator
- Watson, Thomas, 1750-1781, printmaker, publisher
- Contributor
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Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Shropshire, Walter, -1785, publisher. - Published / Created
- [1 January 1775]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Publish'd Jany. 1st, 1775, for W. Shropshire, No. 158 & T. Watson, No. 142 New Bond Street
- Abstract
-
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1904); as a very young child seen whole-length within rectangular frame, lying on ground embracing poodle, facing front, wearing light dress and cap; landscape behind; before title changed."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title engraved on smaller plate printed below larger plate with image.
Statements of responsibility engraved along top edge of smaller plate; additional artist and printmaker statements engraved along bottom edge of image plate: Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds ; engraved by Thos. Watson.
State from Russell.
Imprint statement engraved along bottom edge of image plate.
Print consists of two plates printed one above the other. The larger, upper plate contains the image; the smaller, lower plate contains only text.
Sheet trimmed to plate marks.
Mounted on page 90 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.
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 : plate mark 27.7 x 33 cm and plate mark 4.6 x 33 cm, on sheet 32.5 x 33 cm
- Edition
- [State 3].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portraits
Reproductions
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1775 - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Sophia Matilda, Princess of Gloucester, 1773-1844
- Subjects
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Sophia Matilda, Princess of Gloucester, 1773-1844 > Portraits
England > London > 1775
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
- 13461993
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729690
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