"Portrait of a woman (possibly Mary Ruthven or Princess Mary), bust-length, turned to the right, with curly hair, pearl necklace, and embroidered dress."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from manuscript annotation in pencil above image, on mounting page., Place of publication based on printmaker's nationality; date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1888,0612.40., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of statements of responsibility from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum., and Mounted on page 163 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.
"Sacrifice of Iphigenia, kneeling in front of the altar, and about to be beheaded by the torturer."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Publication date burnished from plate in lower right corner., "Cum priuilegio Regis christ.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Six lines of verse in Latin in three columns below image: Cum foret immiti iamiam mactanda Diana Heu miseri ante oculos Iphigenia patris ..., and Watermark.