print
- Museum number
- 1838,0420.77
- Description
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Portrait of Isabella, Duchess of Grafton, three-quarter length seated slightly to right, a vase of flowers at left and a fluted column behind at right; after Willem Wissing. 1683
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1683
- Dimensions
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Height: 352 millimetres
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Width: 255 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- For another impression see 1902,1011.6056. For impressions of first state see 1864,0813.86 and 1902,1011.6055. For a copy in reverse see 1864,0813.85.
The inscription on this state ascribes the portrait to Wissing rather than Lely.
Lit.: R.B. Beckett, 'Lely', London, 1951, no. 217; C. Macleod and J.M. Alexander, 'Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II', National Portrait Galley and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven and London, 2002, no. 94.
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2001 Oct-Jan, London, National Portrait Gallery, Painted Ladies...
2002 Jan-Mar, New Haven, Yale Center for British Art, Painted Ladies...
- Acquisition date
- 1838
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1838,0420.77