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Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick

Print
April 1876 (published)
Artist/Maker
Colnaghi (publishers)
Cousins, Samuel (R.A.) (engraver)
Reynolds, Joshua (Sir) (artist)
McLean, Thomas (publisher)
Bell, Gertrude Margaret Lowthian (made)
Place of origin
London (published)
Manchester (published)

Portrait, when a child; full-length, standing in a landscape and facing slightly right.


Object details

Categories
Portraits
Prints
Object type
Print
TitleLady Gertrude Fitzpatrick (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques
Mezzotint
Mezzotint
Brief description
Print, portrait of Lady Gertrude Fitzpatrick, when a child, mezzotint by Samuel Cousins after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1876.
Physical description
Portrait, when a child; full-length, standing in a landscape and facing slightly right.
Dimensions
  • Cut to height: 50.2cm
  • Cut to width: 34.9cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria & Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959. London: HMSO, 1964.
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'Lady Anne (sic) Fitzpatrick ("Sylvia") Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds, P.R.A. Engraved by Samuel Cousins R.A. London Published by P. & D. Colnaghi & Co. 14, Pall Mall East and T. McLean, 7 Haymarket, and Manchester by Grundy & Smith, Exchange Street, April 1876.' (Lettered)
  • (Marked with the stamp of the Printsellers' Association)
Credit line
Given by Mrs E. B. Westwood
Object history
The subject of this portrait is listed by Whitman as Lady Ann Fitzpatrick, but the British Museum’s Catalogue of Engraved British Portraits (1910) describes the sitter as Lady Ann’s sister, Lady Gertrude. Reynolds’s sitter books record the sitter as Lady Gertrude.
Production
The original portrait was painted in May 1787.
Subjects depicted
Girl
Landscape
Fitzpatrick, Gertrude (Lady)
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints and Drawings and Department of Paintings, Accessions 1959 . London: HMSO, 1964.
  • Whitman, Alfred. Samuel Cousins. London: G. Bell & Sons, 1904.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.306-1959

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
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