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)