drawing
- Museum number
- 1885,0711.5
- Description
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Portrait of Marguerite Farmer (1789-1849), authoress, afterwards Lady Blessington, in 1812; half-length, in low dress, seated in profile to right and looking r
Graphite
- Production date
- 1768-1826
- Dimensions
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Height: 241 millimetres
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Width: 193 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Marguerite Power, b. 1789 near Clonmel, Ireland, married in 1804 to Captain Maurice Farmer (d.1817), and remarried to Charles John Gardiner, 2nd Viscount Mountjoy and 1st Earl of Blessington in 1818, after his death she lived with Count d'Orsay (see DNB).
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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1974 July-Dec, BM, Portrait Drawings, no.348
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Acquisition notes
- The Gaskoin sale at Sotheby's in 1885 cannot be identified, but Lugt records a sale at Christie's 3.4.1884 of the estate of Gerval Frederick Gascoigne.
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1885,0711.5
