Catherine, Countess of Desmond [graphic]

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Description

Title
Catherine, Countess of Desmond [graphic]
Creator
Aliamet, François Germain, 1734-1788, printmaker
Published / Created
[between 1769 and 1790]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait of an unidentified woman, previously known as the Countess of Desmond; an elderly woman shown bust-length directed to right, glancing towards the viewer, wearing a heavy, dark veil like that of a nun, a dark cloak tied with lacing at the throat and a high, pale collar."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,67.147.
Plate from an unidentified edition of Thomas Pennant's A tour in Scotland, MDCCLXIX.
"Plate VI" etched in upper left corner; "p. 74" etched in upper right corner.
Possibly a portrait of Rembrandt's mother; see Catalogue of engraved British portraits.
Mounted on page 112 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 and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 14.6 x 12.2 cm and sheet 1.6 x 12.3 cm.
Imperfect; the portion of the plate containing the printmaker's signature has been trimmed away, with the lower portion of the plate containing the title being mounted directly below the upper portion of the plate containing the image.
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 20.6 x 14.7 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1769
Engravings England London 1769
Material
etching and engraving ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Desmond, Katherine (Fitzgerald) Fitzgerald, countess of, d.1604?
Subjects
Desmond, Katherine (Fitzgerald) Fitzgerald, countess of, d.1604?
England > London > 1769
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13497537
Object ID (OID)
16729712

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