print
- Museum number
- Ii,9.47
- Title
- Object: Mrs Billington, as St Cecilia
- Description
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Portrait of Elizabeth Billington as the saint, standing whole-length to front holding open music book before her, head turned to face right, wearing loose, light robe, her curly hair partly up; with cherubs in air above, one about to place wreath on her head, four to right, singing; clouds behind; after Reynolds (Mannings 172); working proof numbered 7. 1803
Mezzotint
- Production date
- 1803
- Dimensions
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Height: 655 millimetres
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Width: 415 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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2005 Feb-May, Ferrara, Pal dei Diamanti, Reynolds/Invention of Celebrity
2005 May-Sep, London, Tate Britain, Reynolds/Invention of Celebrity, no.85.
- Acquisition date
- 1817
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- Ii,9.47
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: 1981,U.631