The Rt. Honble. Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend only daughter to Edward Harrison of Balls, in [the] County of Hertford Esqr. / [graphic]

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Title
The Rt. Honble. Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend only daughter to Edward Harrison of Balls, in [the] County of Hertford Esqr. / [graphic]
Alternative Title
Right Honourable Ethelreda Viscountess Townshend
Creator
Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
Contributor
Vanloo, Carle, 1705-1765, artist.
Published / Created
[1742]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait, half-length, facing front, facing and looking to front, wearing a cap trimmed with lace, a dress with large sleeves, lace at the cuffs, and broad skirts, drawing together a lace-trimmed scarf around her neck."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Engraved after a painting by Carle Vanloo; see British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title from lower edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1885,0509.1546.
Mounted on page 162 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 28.8 x 23 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1742
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Townshend, Ethelreda Harrison, Viscountess, 1708?-1788,
Subjects
Townshend, Ethelreda Harrison, Viscountess, 1708?-1788
England > London > 1742
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Catalog Record
13531496
Object ID (OID)
16729749

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