The Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Chesterfield, c. 1680

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper

Dimensions

plate: 33.9 x 24.6 cm (13 3/8 x 9 11/16 in.)

sheet: 39.2 x 29.5 cm (15 7/16 x 11 5/8 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 7, State ii/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.6

Artists / Makers

Alexander Browne (artist) English, active late 17th century

Sir Peter Lely (artist after) English, born Germany, 1618 - 1680

Image Use

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Inscription

lower center in plate: The Right Honrbl. The Lady Elizabeth Butler Countess of Chesterfield; lower left in plate: P. Lelij Eques / pinxit; lower right in plate: sold by Alex Browne at ye blew / ballcony on little Queen Street; by later hand, lower right in graphite: B/250 / p1
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Provenance

John Chaloner Smith, Dublin (1827 - 1895), inventory no. 5-3389; (his sale, Sotheby's London, 21-30 March, no. 275). Christopher Lennox Boyd; (Nicholas Stogdon, Oxford); purchased 2001 by NGA.

Associated Names

Lennox-Boyd, Christopher
Stogdon, N.G.

Bibliography

1884: Smith, John Chaloner. British mezzotinto portraits, being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century. 4 vols. London: Henry Sotheran and Co., 1884.