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Object Type
Museum number: 1873,0809.549
Description: Lady with a lamb, possibly Nell Gwyn or Elizabeth, Countess de Grammont; seated almost whole-length to left, eyes to front, her satin dress low and exposing her breast, landscape behind; lettered state. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: James McArdell (also publisher); After: Sir Peter Lely
School/style
Production date: 1742-1765
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 355 millimetres; Width: 248 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Goodman mentions Nell Gwyn as possible sitters, following Granger, Bromley and Dodd, but, like Dodd, he also mentions the Countess of Grammont (Miss Elizabeth Hamilton), which identification he considers more likely.
Bibliographic references: Goodwin 1903 / British Mezzotinters: James McArdell (126.I); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (191); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (191.II)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Nell Gwyn (?); Portrait of: Elizabeth Hamilton, Countess de Gramont (?)
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1873
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1873,0809.549

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