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Object Type
Museum number: 1902,1011.6533
Title: Object: Catherine, Lady Bampfylde
Description: Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 104); standing whole-length to front, within landscape, head in three-quarter profile and looking to left, her left arm leaning on a block to right, wearing her hair high and curled with a plait looped over her right shoulder, with strings of pearls fastened at her breast; white lilies at foreground right; proof before title. 1779 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas Watson (also publisher); After: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Published by: William Dickinson
School/style
Production date: 1779
Production place: Published in: London (England)
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Technique
Dimensions: Height: 632 millimetres; Width: 376 millimetres
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Curator's comments: The portrait, now in the Tate Gallery, was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1777. Catherine Moore had married Sir Charles Bampfylde of Poltimore in Devon in 1776.
Bibliographic references: Hamilton 1884 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (p.80.II); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (2.II); Goodwin / British Mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins (36.II)
Location: Not on display
Exhibition history: 1984 London, BM, 'Gainsborough and Reynolds in the BM', cat.124
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Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1902
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1902,1011.6533

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