Caroline Campbell, Countess of Ailesbury from the original bust in marble executed by her daughter the Honble. Anne Damer, 1789 / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Caroline Campbell, Countess of Ailesbury from the original bust in marble executed by her daughter the Honble. Anne Damer, 1789 / [graphic]
Creator
Jones, John, 1745?-1797, printmaker, publisher
Contributor
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, sculptor.
Roberts, James, 1753-approximately 1809, artist, publisher.
Published / Created
[26 June 1790]
Publication Place
Oxford and London
Publisher
Publish'd as the act directs June 26, 1790, by James Roberts, Hogarth's Passage, Oxford; and J. Jones, No. 75 Great Portland Street, London
Abstract

"Portrait bust of the sculptor's mother turned in profile to right on a ledge, the sitter with her head veiled and hair curled at front, her lips pursed, oval design; after a sculpture by Anne Seymour Damer, from a series of engravings after her work."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1917,1208.2894.
Mounted on page 243 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 25.8 x 17 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1790
Stipple engravings England Oxford 1790
Annotations (Provenance) 19th century
Material
stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Ailesbury, Caroline Campbell, Countess of, 1721-1803,
Subject (Topic)
Sculpture
Subjects
Ailesbury, Caroline Campbell, Countess of, 1721-1803
Sculpture
England > London > 1790
England > Oxford > 1790
19th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13615180
Object ID (OID)
16729808

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