Georgiana, Countess of Spencer
Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian, 1727 - 1815
after Thomas Gainsborough, English, 1727 - 1788
1782
Engraving on paper
Plate: 8 5/16 × 6 5/16 in. (21.1 × 16 cm)
Sheet: 8 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (21.6 × 16.5 cm)
Mount: 12 3/16 × 8 1/4 in. (30.9 × 21 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Jean and Adolph Weil Jr. 1935 Fund
2014.57.7
Geography
Place Made: Italy, Europe
Period
1600-1800
Object Name
Research Area
Not on view
Inscriptions
Inscribed, in plate, lower right, beneath image: F. Bartolozzi Sculp; inscribed, in plate, lower left, beneath image: Gainsborough pinxt.; inscribed, in plate, bottom margin, left to right: Georgiana Countess Spencer. / Published as the Act directs 1st. Jany.. 1783, by Jean Marc Pascal Berlin; inscribed, on reverse, lower left, in graphite: Nsg. 3/-; inscribed, on reverse, lower right, in graphite: p15[underlined] / a-1 / ft; Stamped, on reverse, center, in purple ink: Furst zu LIECHTENSTEIN / Wien; Stamped, on mount, bottom right corner, in blue ink: 37
Provenance
James A. Bergquist, Newton Centre, Massachusetts; sold to present collection, 2014.
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