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

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Medium

mezzotint on laid paper [proof]

Dimensions

plate: 33.8 x 24.5 cm (13 5/16 x 9 5/8 in.)

sheet: 44.6 x 25.4 cm (17 9/16 x 10 in.)

Credit Line

Paul Mellon Fund

Catalogue Raisonné

Smith 1884, no. 7, State i/ii

Accession Number

2001.118.5

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

by later hand, lower center in graphite: The Rt. Honble Eliz. Butler Countess of / Chesterfield; by later hand, lower left in brown ink: P. Lely eques p.; by later hand, lower right in brown ink: Sold by A Browne sc-- / proof print (not deciphered)

Provenance

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.