print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.2387
- Title
- Object: The Right Hon,,ble Maria, Countess of Coventry
- Description
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Portrait; three-quarters length seated to right, looking ahead meditatively, her head on her hand and her elbow on her knee, wearing a gown decorated with flowers and a belt with ornate circular clasps, her hair dressed up with braids and a veil; after Liotard.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1760s-1770s (circa)
- Dimensions
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Height: 320 millimetres (image)
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Height: 341 millimetres (trimmed)
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Width: 253 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Houston engraved a slightly larger version of this which is described by Chaloner Smith and Russell (no. 31). There is also another plate of it by him which is the same size as this, not listed by Chaloner Smith (2010,7081.2386).
It is possible that this plate is the same as that listed by Chaloner Smith, as the second state of no. 31, although since it lacks artists' names and the trimming has taken away any publication line. If so however, there must be an error in the dimensions he gives.
- Location
- Not on display
- 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
- 2010,7081.2387
