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print
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book-illustration
Object Type
print
book-illustration
Museum number
1871,1209.1357
Title
Object:
Mary of Guise.
Description
Portrait of Mary of Guise, half-length, slightly turned to the left, one hand at her breast and the other on a cushion to the foreground, dressed in an ornately embroidered gown with ermine-trimmed sleeves, ropes of pearls about her neck and a small headdress on her head, illustration to Pinkerton's "Iconographia Scotica" (1794) Stipple
Producer name
After:
Sylvester Harding
(?)
Published by:
Isaac Herbert
School/style
British
Production date
1794
Production place
Published in:
London (England)
Materials
paper
Technique
stipple
Dimensions
Height:
138 millimetres
(printed border)
Width:
114 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
(3)
Location
Not on display
Associated names
Portrait of:
Mary of Guise, Queen of Scotland
Illustration to:
John Pinkerton
Associated with:
William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire
Associated titles
Associated Title:
Iconographia Scotica
Acquisition name
Purchased from:
Colnaghi
Acquisition date
1871
Department
Prints and Drawings
Registration number
1871,1209.1357