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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1866,1110.1288
Title
Object:
The Honble.. Sarah Elizabeth, Susannah & Sophia Copley.
Description
Triple portrait in a garden, with Susannah Copley seated at centre, holding a garland, her sister Sarah Elizabeth standing beside her at left, combing her hair, and other sister Sophia standing at right, leaning on Susannah's knee, touching her hair; a parrot sitting on a globe-shaped wire, suspended from a trellis in background at right; after Maclise; illustration to Fairlie's 'Children of the Nobility' (1838). 1837 Etching, engraving and stipple
Producer name
Print made by:
Henry Richard Cook
(?)
After:
Daniel Maclise
Printed by:
McQueen & Co
Published by:
Longman
School/style
British
Production date
1837
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
etching
engraving
stipple
Dimensions
Height:
355 millimetres
Width:
276 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Bibliographic references
O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum
(Groups)
(p.43)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Lady Sarah Elizabeth Selwyn-Ibbetson
Portrait of:
Hon Sophia Clarence Beckett
Portrait of:
Honble Susannah Copley
Associated with:
John Singleton Copley, Baron Lyndhurst
Illustration to:
Louisa Fairlie
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Childreno f the Nobility
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
John Deffett Francis
Acquisition date
1866
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1866,1110.1288