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Object Type: print
Museum number: Aa,3.48
Title: Object: Georgiana, Lady Vicountess Spencer
Description: Portrait after Reynolds (Mannings 1676); half-length seated to left within rectangular frame, head in three-quarter profile and resting on her left hand, her hair covered by a veil; state before title. 1772 Mezzotint
Producer name: Print made by: Thomas Watson; After: Sir Joshua Reynolds; Published by: Samuel Hooper; Published by: Walter Shropshire; Published by: Thomas Watson
School/style: British
Production date: 1772
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper
Technique: mezzotint
Dimensions: Height: 378 millimetres; Width: 277 millimetres
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Bibliographic references: Hamilton 1884 / A Catalogue Raisonné of the Engraved Works of Sir Joshua Reynolds (p.133.II); Chaloner Smith 1883 / British Mezzotinto portraits from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century (34.I); Goodwin / British Mezzotinters: Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elizabeth Judkins (13.II)
Location: Not on display
Associated names: Portrait of: Margaret Georgiana Spencer, Countess Spencer
Acquisition date: 1830-1833 (between)
Acquisition notes: See comment on Aa,1.1.
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: Aa,3.48

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