Contemplation: Portrait of the Countess of Oxford
Print
1802 (made)
1802 (made)
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Portrait of the Countess of Oxford personifying Contemplation. With a fragment of the lettering cut off the print and nailed to the back of the frame.
Object details
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Title | Contemplation: Portrait of the Countess of Oxford (assigned by artist) |
Materials and techniques | Colour aquatint and soft ground etching with additional colouring by hand |
Brief description | 'Contemplation: Portrait of the Countess of Oxford', Richard Westall, British, 1802 |
Physical description | Portrait of the Countess of Oxford personifying Contemplation. With a fragment of the lettering cut off the print and nailed to the back of the frame. |
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Object history | The artist exhibited what was probably a watercolour with this title at the Royal Academy in 1802, no 352. For a note on the decoration of the frame see WESTALL, Richard, Cardinal Bourchier ... E.225-1990 |
Bibliographic reference | Another impression in: R. Godfrey, Printmaking in Britain (Oxford 1978), p.44, pl.41 |
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Accession number | E.227-1990 |
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Record created | February 18, 2009 |
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