Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate unnumbered ornamental oval frames, of Maria Walpole, the Countess of Waldegrave and later the Duchess of Gloucester (1736-1807) and William, Duke of Gloucester
Alternative Title:
D- of G-, Duke of Gloucester, and Lady Waldegrave
Description:
Title from item., Plate from?: Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed. Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 12., and Mounted to 21 x 28 cm.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and William Henry, Duke of Gloucester, 1743-1805,
"Portrait; half-length almost in profile to right, looking ahead, wearing a sprigged gown, her hair dressed up with a scarf like a turban; after Reynolds (Mannings 1896); before title altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 2010,7081.2416., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Mounted on leaf numbered 34 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
Publisher:
Printed for Carington Bowles, next the Chapter House in St. Paul's Church Yard
"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., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1881,1112.231., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 74 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura, 1760-1816,
"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., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1881,1112.231., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on bottom edge with loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum., Formerly laid in at page 69 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., 1 print : mezzotint on laid paper ; sheet 14.7 x 11.5 cm., and Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
Publisher:
Printed for John Bowles in Cornhil, & Carington Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard, London
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura, 1760-1816,
"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
Alternative Title:
Maria Countess of Waldegrave, and her daughter Lady Elizabeth Laura, 1761
Description:
Title engraved below image., Price in lower right corner: 7s. 6d., and Reminants of framer's(?) labels on verso: [C]urtis H. Moyer ... [Pict]ures and Fr[ames?]. 252 Trumbull [Street] Hartford, C[onnecticut].
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess of, 1760-1816,
"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
Alternative Title:
Maria Countess of Waldegrave, and her daughter Lady Elizabeth Laura, 1761
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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Waldegrave, Elizabeth Laura Waldegrave, Countess of, 1760-1816,
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1762.
Call Number:
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1896); half-length to right, head almost in profile, wearing a flowered dress and a turban, a plait of hair over her left shoulder; published state."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Final state of the plate with title, artist and printmaker names, and publication line present; this represents the third state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., and Mounted on page 108 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Maria Walpole (1736-1807) was the daughter of Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) and his common-law wife Dorothy Clement (1715?-1739). She married first, in 1759, James Waldegrave (1714-1763), Earl Waldegrave, and second, in 1766, Prince William Henry Hanover (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh. and Miniature attached to larger paper backing, mounted in early 20th century bezel; it was probably originally set in a locket or bracelet clasp.
Maria Walpole (1736-1807) was the daughter of Sir Edward Walpole (1706-1784) and his common-law wife Dorothy Clement (1715-1739). She married first, in 1759, James Waldegrave (1714-1763), Earl Waldegrave, and second, in 1766, Prince William Henry Hanover (1743-1805), Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh., Maria, Countess Waldegrave, dressed in mauve, when the widow of James Waldegrave, Earl Waldegrave. Hone painted his miniature after the Sir Joshua Reynolds portrait in the Euston Hall Collection, Suffolk (Mannings, D. Sir Joshua Reynolds, number 1900)., Signed by the artist with monogram, lower right., Date of the minature is based on the Reynolds portrait., Portrait set in gilt metal locket with burnished glass bezel and ridged case edge. The initials MW are engraved on the verso beneath a coronet., and For further provenance information, see the custodial history note in the Guide to the Sir Edward Walpole and Dorothy Clement Family Papers (LWL MSS 37).
