print
- Museum number
- 1859,0709.1424
- Description
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Portrait of Anne Mornington, whole length, seated slightly to left in an armchair, looking downwards into the distance, both arms resting on chair arms, holding a paper lettered with 'The London Gaz[ette] / Extraordinary' in her right hand; wearing a lace veil over bonnet, ermine cape over dark dress, and rings on both hands; a small dog lying on the floor at her feet at left, and a sculptured bust standing on a plinth at right, with curtain behind; table at left, on which lie a letter from her son, bust, portrait plaque, books and letters; behind at left, arched entrance to another room, with paintings on the wall and a bust on a tall plinth; border of two lines around image; after Burghersh; state before lettered title, with facsimile of autographs. 1839
Mezzotint and etching on chine collé
- Production date
- 1839
- Dimensions
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Height: 620 millimetres
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Width: 450 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Pilgrim Trust.
Subscriptions were invited by Welch & Gwynne, Printsellers to the Royal Family, 24 St James’s St, for the mezzotint of Anne Countess of Mornington in Bent’s Monthly Literary Adviser, no 403 (10 July 1838) p.81 at a guinea for prints, two for proofs, three for proofs before letters, and four for impressions on india with the autographs (such as this impression). The advertisement was headed ‘Under the Patronage of her Most Gracious Majesty’, and the picture by her granddaughter Priscilla Lady Burghersh ‘Honorary Member of the Academy of Florence &c’, ‘To be dedicated to the Right Honourable Lord Maryborough’, was described as showing the sitter ‘holding the Gazette containing the account of the Battle of Waterloo ... on the table, on her right, is seen the bust of her third son, Arthur, Duke of Wellington, and immediately beneath the bust, an open letter, dated from Waterloo, the day after the Battle, and signed by himself. On the same table is a medallion-profile of Henry Lord Cowley, her youngest son; on the ground on the left, the bust of Lord Maryborough, her second son, and father of the noble Painter; and in the gallery, at a distance, that of the Marquis Wellesley, her eldest son. We are very grateful to David Alexander (email, December 2015) for providing us with the information above.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1859
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1859,0709.1424
