Portrait of the Countess de Gramont; half length to right, glancing towards the viewer; wearing a rich loose gown and embroidered shawl
Alternative Title:
Mademoiselle d'Hamilton, Comtesse de Grammont and Mademoiselle de Hamilton, Comtesse de Grammont
Description:
Title etched below image., Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved., Plate from: Hamilton, A. Memoires du comte de Grammont. [Twickenham] : Imprimée à Strawberry-Hill, 1772., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., "P. 92"--Upper right corner., and Mounted on page 161 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.
Publisher:
Strawberry Hill Press
Subject (Name):
Gramont, Elizabeth Hamilton, comtesse de, 1641-1708,
Title from item., Below title are eight lines of verse in two columns, signed R.G. Sr. D.L.: Flore, Thisbe! Lucresse & Porcie & Cypris ..., Engraved below verses: Omnia vincit amor & nos Cedamus amori. Virgil., Watermark upper center of sheet., and Written in ink along right plate line, top: 155. Lower left corner of plate mark: 74. On verso, lower left: 141[?]
Delegorgue-Cordier, Jean François Prosper, 1781-1856, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1815 and 1856]
Call Number:
Portraits Se511 no. 1+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Madame de Sévigné, bust to left, looking to front, her hair curled, wearing a low-necked gown, in a border with lyres and medals."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1860,0714.45., Text below title and engraver's statement: Tiré du Cabinet de Mr. Traullé, Chevalier des Ordres de St. Louis & de la Légion d'Honneur., and "Déposé au Beau. des Estampes"--Beneath image in lower left.
Publisher:
Chez Bernard, Md. d'estampes, Boulevard des Italiens No. 11
Subject (Name):
Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696,
"Portrait of John Dryden, half-length, turned to the right, holding laurel wreath in left hand; in oval frame with coat of arms in lower part."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text in image., Place of publication taken from printmaker's known place of activity., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0822.969., and Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"A Portrait of John Law of Lauriston, Financier, Promoter of the Mississippi Scheme."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title engraved below image., Publication date from book in which this plate was published., Four lines of verse in French in two columns below title: Sous l'auguste et sage regence d'un prince aimant la bonne foy ..., Plate 10 from: Het groote tafereel der dwaasheid ... , v. 1., Mounted to 47 x 30 cm., and Five lines of description in Dutch added below plate in an unidentified hand.
BEIN BrSides 2019 527: Uncolored. On sheet 41.0 x 27.4 cm. Forms part of the Benjamin Franklin Collection., Title from caption below image., and Publication date is from printmaker's active dates.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Half-length portrait, oval in rectangular frame, of Bishop Nicolas Coeffeteau, in ecclesiastical robes and crucifix around his neck; coat of arms at the base
Alternative Title:
Nicolas Coeffeteau evesque de Dardanie et nommé a l'evêché de Marseille
Description:
Title from caption below image. and Place and date of publication based on printmaker's place of activity and his death date.