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Object Type
Museum number: 1871,1209.2433
Title: Object: Helena Forman, Rubens's Second Wife; Series: Houghton Gallery
Description: Plate 36: Portrait of Rubens' second wife Helena Fourment standing whole-length to front with her hands around her waist, head turned slightly to right but looking to front; wearing black gown and plumed hat, ruff and holding ostrich feather in her left hand; landscape behind; lower margin with inscription trimmed; after Peter Paul Rubens. 1767 Engraving
Producer name: After: Peter Paul Rubens; Print made by: Thomas A E Chambars; Intermediary draughtsman: Richard Earlom; Published by: John Boydell; After: Anthony van Dyck (wrongly lettered)
School/style: Flemish; British
Production date: 1767
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 475 millimetres (trimmed); Width: 342 millimetres
Curator's comments: After the painting by Rubens in the Hermitage, St Petersburg, inv.no.576; now in Galouste Gulbenkian Museum, Lisbon, inv.no.959 (Rooses 943). Plate 36 from the second volume from 'The Houghton Gallery', for comment see 2005,U.109. For another impression of this plate (with inscription) and comment see 1875,0710.3914.
Bibliographic references: Schneevoogt 1873 / Catalogue des estampes gravées d'après P.P.Rubens (166.110); Corpus Rubenianum XIX / Portraits (undescribed); Rubinstein 1991 / Richard Earlom (1743-1822) and Boydell's Houghton Gallery (II.36)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Helena Fourment; Associated with: Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (dedicatee); Associated with: John Boydell (dedicator)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1871
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1871,1209.2433

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