Maria Countess of Waldegrave, and her daughter Lady Elizth. Laura, 1761 [graphic]

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Description

Title
Maria Countess of Waldegrave, and her daughter Lady Elizth. Laura, 1761 [graphic]
Alternative Title
Maria Countess of Waldegrave, and her daughter Lady Elizabeth Laura, 1761
Creator
Houston, Richard, 1721?-1775, printmaker
Contributor
Reynolds, Joshua, Sir, 1723-1792, artist.
Published / Created
[ca. 1761]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1903); half-length seated to right, looking at her young daughter curled up against her chest, and wrapping her in ermine-lined mantle."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Price in lower right corner: 7s. 6d.
Mounted on page 92 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.
1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 48.7 x 36 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of price from lower right corner.
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 : plate mark 49.4 x 35.9 cm, on sheet 58.4 x 44.6 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Group portraits
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1761
Material
mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807,
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess of, 1760-1816,
Subjects
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess of, 1760-1816
England > London > 1761
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
11169196
Object ID (OID)
16732983

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