"Portrait of Madame de Maintenon, bust-length directed to right and looking to front, her dark hair in an updo and dressed with pearls, and wearing a pearl earring and a pearl necklace, in an oval frame, surrounded by four medallions celebrating her virtues, and her coat of arms at the bottom."--British Museum online catalogue
Alternative Title:
Françoise Daubigny Marquise de Maintenon
Description:
Title from text in image., Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.1341., Sheet trimmed to plate mark on top edge., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 96 (leaf numbered '145' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Title devised by cataloger., A lock of Madame de Maintenon's hair, medium brown hair secured to paper backing with small paper label. Kept in the Glass Closet at Strawberry Hill with letters from Madame de Maintenon. Below label securing the lock, written in Horace Walpole's hand: "Cheveux de Made. de Maintenon". Further note also mounted on same paper also in Walpole's hand "Written by Madame de Maintenon & given to me at St. Cyr by one of the Nuns. Hor Walpole.", Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: Two original letters of Madame de Maintenon, also a lock of her hair., and Mentioned in letter from Walpole to Marie du Deffand 27 January 1775 (published in Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence) | Sabin receipt dated January 1929. | Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill [database] sh-000404
