<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>A Madame la Duchesse de Montbason [graphic].</dc:title><dc:date>[between 1628 and 1657]</dc:date><dc:language>fre</dc:language><dc:description>"Portrait of Marie de Bretagne, Duchess of Montbazon, bust-length, slightly turned to the left, with curly hair, pearl earring, pearl necklace, and dress with square neckline."--British Museum online catalogue</dc:description><dc:description>Title engraved below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Publisher and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1917,1208.3886.</dc:description><dc:description>Dedication to the Duchess of Montbazon by Jean Leblond engraved below image: Quoy qu'il ne soit pas possible, Madame, que l'art puisse bien representer l'extreme beauté ... Vostre tres-humble, et tres-obeissant seruiteur Iehan le Blond ...</dc:description><dc:description>Sheet trimmed within plate mark.</dc:description><dc:description>Mounted on page 63 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.</dc:description><dc:description>For further information, consult library staff.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>