[The Honble. Mrs. Damer] [graphic]

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Title
[The Honble. Mrs. Damer] [graphic]
Alternative Title
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Creator
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, printmaker
Contributor
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Smith, John Raphael, 1752-1812, publisher.
Published / Created
publishd. 20th February 1774.
Publication Place
London
Publisher
J.R. Smith
Abstract

"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 477); standing three-quarter length slightly to left with her hands held together, eyes to front, wearing loose robe over dress with sash around waist, locket on ribbon and her hair up, but with two long plaits hanging over her shoulders."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from text on later state.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Scratched-letter state; for a later state with the title "The Honble. Mrs. Damer" and the imprint "Publish'd March 1st, 1774, by J.R. Smith, No. 4 Exeter Court, Strand," see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.4966.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 86 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.
With contemporary pencil annotation in lower margin: Mrs. Damer.
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 37.9 x 28 cm
Edition
[State 1].
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Reproductions
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1774
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,
Subjects
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
England > London > 1774
18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13452614
Object ID (OID)
16732977

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