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Object Type: print
Museum number: 2010,7081.118
Description: A young woman in classical dress with pearl earring and a striped scarf in her braided hair, shown half-length almost in profile to left, her shoulders hunched and looking up, holding the folds of her billowing cloak against her right cheek. Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Anonymous; After: Charles Le Brun; Published by: John Smith, the mezzotinter
School/style: British
Production date: 1667-1725 (circa)
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 116 millimetres; Width: 100 millimetres
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Curator's comments: The figure is extracted from the composition by Charles Le Brun of Alexander standing before the kneeling family of Darius (painting at Versailles); this figure is a combination of the second and the third women in the line (information supplied by Nicholas Stogdon, via email May 2014). Smith's may be a republication of an earlier plate. Other impressions: Edinburgh; Haddington albums, vol. 2, p. 240; London NPG; Plymouth; CLB, later impression than this with losses from two corners
Bibliographic references: Wessely 1887 / John Smith: Verzeichniss seiner schabkunstblätter (390); 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" (undescribed)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Representation of: Artemisia (?)
Acquisition name: Purchased from: Hon Christopher Lennox-Boyd
Funder name: With contribution from: National Heritage Memorial Fund; With contribution from: Art Fund; With contribution from: British Museum Friends; With contribution from: Friends of Prints and Drawings; With contribution from: Mrs Charles Wrightsman; With contribution from: Michael Marks Charitable Trust
Acquisition date: 2010
Acquisition notes: Acquired with the assistance of the National Heritage Memorial Fund, the Friends of the British Museum, the Art Fund, Mrs Charles Wrightsman, the Michael Marks Charitable Trust, and numerous individual donors.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 2010,7081.118

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