Printseller's advertisement following imprint: Folios of caracatures [sic] lent out for the evening. and Temporary local subject terms: Nobodies -- Female dress, 1795: high-waisted dresses -- Female dress: cross-gartered stockings -- Shoes: cothurnes -- Hats, 1795 -- Headdresses, 1795 -- Allusion to frocks of waggoners.
Publisher:
Pubd. Augst. 4, 1795, by S.W. Fores, No. 50 Piccadilly, the corner of Sackville Street,
"Portrait standing whole-length next to an orange tree, left foot raised on the plinth below it, left arm resting on the large urn in which the tree is planted, holding a fruit and gesturing towards it with the other hand, smiling towards the viewer; from a series of thirteen plates after Kneller."--British Museum online catalogue.
Description:
Printmaker and publishers statements taken from alternate state, see British Museum online catalogue., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins, resulting in loss of imprint., and Title and date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.1207.
Publisher:
[J. Cooper],
Subject (Name):
Bliss, G. T.--Mrs.--Ownership., Bliss, Susan Dwight--Donor., Cooper, John, fl. 1726-1737, publisher., and Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist.
Call Number:
24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title:
Castle of Otranto.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
Paintings & Drawings
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Mary Coke, bust length, in profile to the left; wearing a plain headdress, a ruffled choker, and a low-cut gown.
Description:
Date of production based on artist's death date., Former owners include R.S. Holford and J.O. Jardine Binnie. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from E. Mathews, February 1939., Inlaid opposite page xiii in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791]., Title devised by curator., and Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Subject (Name):
Binnie, J. O. Jardine--Ownership., Coke, Mary,--Lady,--1726-1811--Portraits., and Holford, Robert Stayner,--1808-1892--Ownership.
Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Numbered '328' in lower right of plate., Place and date of imprint conjectured from that of book., Probably from: A series of original portraits and caricature etchings by the late John Kay. Edinburgh : Adam and Charles Black, 1877, v. 2., Temporary local subject headings: Major Skey., and Title supplied by cataloger.