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Contemplation: Portrait of the Countess of Oxford

Print
1802 (made)
Artist/Maker
Place of origin

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

Categories
Object type
TitleContemplation: 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.
Dimensions
  • Frame height: 73.8cm
  • Frame width: 59cm
  • Frame depth: 5.9cm
  • Sight size of image height: 59.7cm
  • Sight size of image width: 45cm
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
Collection
Accession number
E.227-1990

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Record createdFebruary 18, 2009
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