Skip to main content

Portrait of Miss Hoare: P.14833-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of Miss Hoare

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Hoare, William

Entities

Categories

Description

Etching on laid paper. A head-and-shoulders portrait of a young girl wearing a shepherdess-style hat and a shawl around her shoulders. A portrait of the Mary, the younger daughter of William Hoare. Trimmed to the platemark except for along the lower edge where there are handwritten inscriptions in the margin: 'Miss Hoare' (graphite); 'Wm Hoare fr aqua' (brown ink). An untrimmed impression of this print in the collection of the British Museum (1852,0214.289) bears inscriptions which indicate it as printed from a private plate.

Legal notes

Unknown

Acquisition and important dates

by unknown

Dating

18th Century
Circa 1725 - Circa 1792

Note

Height 220mm x width 160mm (cut to platemark)

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14833-R
Primary reference Number: 225442
O'Donoghue: 3
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Monday 7 January 2019 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints

Citation for print

This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:

The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Portrait of Miss Hoare" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/225442 Accessed: 2024-11-23 00:51:53

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:

{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/225442 |title=Portrait of Miss Hoare |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-23 00:51:53|publisher=The University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-225442

Sign up for updates

Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...