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Object Type
Museum number: R,1b.120
Title: Object: Elisabet Comitissa Warwyck
Description: Portrait of Elizabeth, Countess of Warwick, bust to right; in an oval; after Anthony van Dyck Engraving
Producer name: Print made by: Paulus Pontius; After: Anthony van Dyck; After: John Hoskins (? suggested by New Hollstein)
School/style
Production date: 1645-1658
Materials
Technique
Dimensions: Height: 94 millimetres; Width: 68 millimetres
$Inscriptions
Curator's comments: Other impressions have ornamental border from separate plate, published by Joannes Meyssens. New Hollstein notes: 'P. J. Mariette describes an impression with manuscript: "M[de] Elisabeth Blonde" and proposes an indentification of the wife or daughter of Michel Le Blon (Mariette, II, p. 208).'; see R,1b.122. Cf. etching by Hollar (Pennington 1729).
Bibliographic references: Hollstein / Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts c.1450-1700 (undescribed); O'Donoghue 1908-25 / Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum (4) (under Mary, Countess of Warwick); New Hollstein (Dutch & Flemish) / The New Hollstein: Dutch and Flemish etchings, engravings and woodcuts 1450-1700 (506.II) (Van Dyck)
Location: Not on display
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1799
Acquisition notes: pasted down For the argument that this probably comes from Cracherode, see R,1a.1
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: R,1b.120
Additional IDs: Miscellaneous number: 2006,U.770

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