Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Mary of Guise from a painting in the Duke of Devonshire's possession / [graphic]
Contributor
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, artist.
Herbert, Isaac, active 1793-1798, publisher.
Published / Created
[1 December 1794]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Published 1st December 1794 by I. Herbert, No. 29 Great Russel Street, Bloomsbury
Abstract

"Portrait of Mary of Guise, half-length, slightly turned to the left, one hand at her breast and the other on a cushion to the foreground, dressed in an ornately embroidered gown with ermine-trimmed sleeves, ropes of pearls about her neck and a small headdress on her head."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Plate from: Pinkerton, J. Iconographia Scotica; or, Portraits of illustrious persons of Scotland. London : I. Herbert, 1797.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 129 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 : sheet 16.4 x 12 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
Stipple engravings England London 1794
Etchings England London 1794
Material
stipple engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Mary, Queen, consort of James V, King of Scotland, 1515-1560,
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811
Subject (Topic)
Art collections
Subjects
Mary, Queen, consort of James V, King of Scotland, 1515-1560
Devonshire, William Cavendish, Duke of, 1748-1811 > Art collections
England > London > 1794
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12773791
Object ID (OID)
16729724

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