Frances Dutchess of Suffolk and her husband Adrian Stokes Esqr [graphic]Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker[1748]eng"Double portrait of Frances Brandon and Adrian Stokes; she on the left, holding a glove in her right hand on a cushion, touching her necklace with the other, he on the right, holding his gloves to his chest in his left hand; with a cartouche on the base of the plinth forming the lower part of the frame."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state"One of nine plates Vertue engraved of 'Historical Portraitures' (see Alexander nos. 854-857, 921-924 and 954), from copies he made after paintings relating to the Tudor family, issued in three parts: the first four were published in 1743 and advertised in his 1751 catalogue at £1.11s.6d; the second four were published in 1748 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £1.1s; the last print was published in 1750 and advertised in his 1753 catalogue at £7.7s. They were all republished as a set by the Society of Antiquaries in 1776, together with Vertue's notes on the pictures which he presented to the Society and plate numbers."--British Museum online catalogue, curator's commentsTitle engraved within cartouche below image.Published by George Vertue; see Alexander, page 223.Three lines of text below image, on either side of cartouche containing title: This Noble Lady was eldest daughter of Charles Brandon Duke of Suffolk and Mary the French Queen his Dutchess; she was married to Henry Grey Marquess of Dorset and Duke of Suffolk &c. the mother of Lady Jane Grey who was proclaimed Queen."From an original in the cabinet of the Honble. Horace Walpole Junr. Esqr."--Lower left corner of plate."Most humbly inscrib'd by his most obedient servant G. Vertue"--Lower right corner of plate.Sheet trimmed within plate mark.Plate republished in 1776 with added plate number by the Society of Antiquaries of London. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: Y,5.142.Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 4, page 219.