[Lady Bingham] [graphic]

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Description

Title
[Lady Bingham] [graphic]
Creator
Watson, James, 1740-1790, printmaker
Contributor
Kauffmann, Angelica, 1741-1807, artist.
Watson, James, 1740-1790, publisher.
Clowes, Butler, -1782, publisher.
Published / Created
[1775]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
James Watson and Butler Clowes
Abstract

"Portrait seated whole-length to right on couch beside pillar, upper body turned to left holding open portfolio on table at left beside papers and vase, head turned to face right; wearing loose, flowing robe and turban."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state

Description
Title from text on later states.
First (proof?) state of the plate, before sitter's name and publication line added below image. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Publication information based on first published state (second state overall) bearing the imprint statement "Publish'd according to act of Parliament March 15th, 1775, by James Watson, No. 64 Little Queen Ann Street & B. Clowes, engraver, Gutter Lane, Cheapside, London." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
For second published state (third state overall) with altered imprint statement, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1873,0712.644.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Tipped in at page 68 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 48.7 x 38 cm
Edition
[State 1].
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 1775
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Lucan, Margaret Bingham, Countess of, -1814,
Subjects
Lucan, Margaret Bingham, Countess of, -1814
England > London > 1775
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13446257
Object ID (OID)
16732959

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