"Triple three-quarter length portrait of the three Waldegrave sisters, seated beside one another at a small work-table; Lady Anna Horatia at right embroidering, with Lady Charlotte Maria at left, her head turned towards front, winding silk from skein which Lady Elizabeth Laura, centre, is holding; a curtain, pillars and trees behind them; after Reynolds (Mannings 1810); proof before letters, but with scratched production and publication detail."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Ladies Waldegrave
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting, now in the National Gallery of Scotland (NG 2171), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great Parlour (Refectory) at Strawberry Hill., With Horace Walpole's manuscript annotations in brown ink in lower margin identifying the sitters and their relationships and a note: "The original picture at Strawberry Hill.", and Sheet trimmed within plate mark: sheet 50.5 x 58.4 cm.
Publisher:
Published Decr. 1st, 1781, by V. Green, No. 29, Newman Street, Oxford Street, London
Subject (Name):
Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess, 1760-1816,, Euston, Charlotte Maria Waldegrave, Lady, 1761-1808,, Seymour, Anne Horatia Waldegrave, Lady, 1762-1801,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)