The Right Honorable Lady Elizabeth Butler, Countess of Chesterfield

c. 1680

Alexander Browne

Artist, English, active late 17th century

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    mezzotint on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Paul Mellon Fund

  • 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.)

  • Accession

    2001.118.6

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Smith 1884, no. 7, State ii/ii

Artwork history & notes

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

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.

Inscriptions

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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Wikidata ID

Q76335482

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