Miss Murray

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Artist/Maker	Houston, Richard (engraver) Bowles, John (publisher) Unknown (artist)
Place of origin	London (published)

Portrait of Miss Murray standing in a garden and tending a rose plant in a pot to the left. Half-length, facing slightly right and wearing a bonnet. In the background to the right is a gardener at work and an arcade in the distance..

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Categories	Prints Portraits
Object type	Print
Title	Miss Murray (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Mezzotint Mezzotint
Brief description	Print, portrait of Miss [Fanny?] Murray tending to a rose plant, mezzotint by Richard Houston after an unknown artist, third quarter of 18th century.
Physical description	Portrait of Miss Murray standing in a garden and tending a rose plant in a pot to the left. Half-length, facing slightly right and wearing a bonnet. In the background to the right is a gardener at work and an arcade in the distance..
Dimensions	Height: 35.2cm (cut) Width: 25.7cm (cut) Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Style	British School
Copy number	1st state
Marks and inscriptions	'R. Houston Fecit. Printed for Jno. Bowles and Son at the Black Horse in Cornhill.' (Lettered with name of sitter etc. and)
Credit line	Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Historical context	The British Museum has a copy of this print. On their website the sitter is identified as Frances (Fanny) Murray (1729-1778), woman about town and wife of the actor David Ross (1728-1790).
Subjects depicted	Garden Gardener Woman Bonnet Rose Arcade
Bibliographic references	Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964. Smith, John Chaloner. British Mezzotinto Portraits. London: Henry Sotheran & Co., 1883.
Collection	Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number	E.413-1959

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Record created	June 30, 2009
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O568718/miss-murray-print-houston-richard/

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