The Dutchess of Summerset [graphic]

Description

Title: The Dutchess of Summerset [graphic]
Alternative Title: Duchess of Somerset
Creator: Vaart, Jan van der, 1653-1727, printmaker
Contributor: Lely, Peter, 1618-1680, artist.
Cooper, Edward, -1725, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1687 and 1700]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: E. Cooper
Abstract: "Portrait of Elizabeth Percy, Duchess of Somerset, whole length, seated on the ground; small tree in pot to right, landscape with building in background to left."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all text and significant portions of image. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1874,0808.1312.
Mounted on page 45 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.
Figure identified as "The Duchess of Somerset" in ink below image on mounting page, in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : oval sheet 19.3 x 17 cm
Edition: [State 1].
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1687
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Percy, Elizabeth, Lady, 1667-1722
Subjects: Percy, Elizabeth, Lady, 1667-1722 > Portraits
England > London > 1687
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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