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Object Type: print
Museum number: 1902,1011.871
Title: Series: The Honble. Mrs. Aldworth
Description: Three-quarter length portrait, standing directed to the left, facing and looking to the front, wearing a masonic apron, her left hand pointing to a Bible on the table beside her, open at pages lettered "St John", right hand across her front, wearing a ring in the shape of the sun on her middle finger; chair beside her on the left with a sun and an eye on the backboard; scratched letter proof. c. 1811 Mezzotint
Producer name: Attributed to: Richard Earlom
School/style: British
Production date: 1811 (?)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 422 millimetres; Width: 320 millimetres
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Curator's comments: Elizabeth Aldworth was said to have been initiated into Freemasonry after witnessing ceremonial proceedings in the home of her father, Arthur St. Leger, Baron Kilmayden and Viscount Doneraile.
Bibliographic references: Wessely 1886 / Richard Earlom, Verzeichniss seiner Radirungen und Schabkunstblätter (undescribed); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (undescribed); Russell 1926 / English Mezzotint Portraits and their states: Catalogue of Corrections of and Additions to Chaloner Smith's "British Mezzotinto Portraits" (1a.I)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: freemasonry
Associated names: Portrait of: Elizabeth Aldworth
Acquisition name: Bequeathed by: William Meriton Eaton, 2nd Baron Cheylesmore
Acquisition date: 1902
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1902,1011.871

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