McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1762]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1896); half-length to right, head almost in profile, wearing a flowered dress and a turban, a plait of hair over her left shoulder; proof before title and publication line."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from later state; see: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Early (proof?) state with artist and printmaker names present but before title and publication line added; this state, undescribed by Smith, represents the third state according to Russell., Date of publication based on later state with the imprint statement "Publish'd as the act directs, Jany. 1st, 1762." See: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Engraved after the painting kept by Horace Walpole in the Gallery at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 139 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., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Maria, Duchess of Gloucester, 1736-1807, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
published according to act of Parliamt., [between 1753 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Bust of a lady with an embroidered sleeve, in an oval three-quarter to left, smiling towards the viewer, with a pearl choker and earrings, an embroidered close cap with a feather, and a fur-trimmed jerkin with a shell clasp."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title written in pencil below print by previous owner., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.3415., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 31 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
McArdell, James, approximately 1729-1765, printmaker
Published / Created:
[between 1753 and 1765]
Call Number:
Folio 75 P839 800 v. 2 (Oversize)
Collection Title:
Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Bust of a lady with an embroidered sleeve, in an oval three-quarter to left, smiling towards the viewer, with a pearl choker and earrings, an embroidered close cap with a feather, and a fur-trimmed jerkin with a shell clasp; state with inscription re-engraved and address and price omitted."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title written in pencil below print by previous owner., Printmaker and artist taken from later state., Date of publication from British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1871,1209.2809., Mounted on leaf numbered 30 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.