"Portrait, three-quarter length standing facing front, hands folded on her cloak which covers a ledge in front of her to right, head turned to right shoulder, smiling towards the viewer, wearing a loose gown with a jewelled belt, hair up with pearls and a diadem, a curl flying loose behind right shoulder, a balustrade behind to left, pillars to right."--British Museum online catalogue, description of later state with added numbering
Description:
Title engraved below image., Artist and printmaker unidentified; the painter and engraver names on the print are evidently fictitious. See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date of publication from a later state described in the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.7303., Window mounted to 51 x 36 cm., and Mounted opposite page 93 (leaf numbered '139' in pencil) in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Moore, T. Memoirs of the life of the Right Honourable Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, -1814 or 1815,
Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. VII and No. VIII, of "Nancy Parsons" and the Duke of Grafton
Description:
Titles etched below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), page 113.
Publisher:
A. Hamilton, Jr.
Subject (Name):
Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, and Maynard, Annabella Parsons, Viscountess, -1814 or 1815,
