print
- Museum number
- 2010,7081.4446
- Description
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Portrait of Nell Gwyn seated three-quarter length slightly to right within oval frame, eyes to front, her bust bare and wearing loose robes, curtain behind at right; after Lely; engraver's proof.
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1856-1906
- Dimensions
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Height: 230 millimetres (trimmed?)
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Width: 190 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- See the mezzotint in the same direction by Valentine Green, from which this probably derives: 1868,0822.7687; Whitman 66.
- 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
- 2010,7081.4446
