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Portrait of Mrs Lagden: P.14872-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of Mrs Lagden

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Tyson, Michael

Entities

Categories

Description

Etching on paper. Portrait of an old woman known as 'Mrs Lagden', half-length, facing front and looking down and towards her right. She wears a mob cap and shawl. Within an oval. A proof before letters. Inscribed in graphite (unknown hand) in the margin below: 'Mrs Lagden Innkeeper Ty[s]on'. Mrs Emma Lagden (d. 1781) was the proprietress of the White Hart Inn at Bourn Bridge. See Notes. See also P.14873-R. The British Museum has an impression of this print by Tyson which is untrimmed. See 1925,0511.160.

Legal notes

Unknown

Acquisition and important dates

by unknown

Dating

18th Century
Production date: circa AD 1770

Note

Height 102mm (cut within platemark) x width 84mm (cut within platemark)

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Etching

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.14872-R
Primary reference Number: 225482
O'Donoghue: undescribed
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Wednesday 5 September 2018 Updated: Monday 7 January 2019 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

Citation for print

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