Maria Scotorvm Regina [graphic]

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Description

Title
Maria Scotorvm Regina [graphic]
Alternative Title
Maria Scotorum Regina
Creator
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Contributor
Zuccaro, Federico, approximately 1540-1609, artist.
Published / Created
[between 1715 and 1756]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, half-length, in an oval surmounted by a crown and thistles and two armorials, slightly turned to the right, dressed in a gown heavily embroidered with flowers and a high collar, a crucifix about her neck, an axe and a sceptre to the foreground lying on the plinth."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved at bottom of image.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of all image and text apart from the oval portrait. Description based on impression in the British Museum, registration no.: 1871,1209.1558.
Mounted on page 60 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.
With wash-line mount (11.8 x 9.9 cm) on which is written: Reduc'd by G. Vertue, from F. Zucchero's origl. Chiswick.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : oval sheet 8.6 x 6.7 cm
Language
Latin

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portraits
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1715
Material
engraving, hand-colored ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
Subjects
Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587 > Portraits
England > London > 1715
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Public
Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13439687
Object ID (OID)
16729663

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