Lady Taylor: P.14986-R

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1912) by Marlay, Charles Brinsley

Dating

18th Century#
Production date: circa AD 1775

Note

Mezzotint, printed in black ink. Trimmed. Proof before title. Engraved in italics in the margin at lower left and lower right: 'Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds' ... 'Engraved by W. Dickinson'. Engraved in italics below: 'From an Original Picture in the Possession of Robert Graham Esq.r. of Gartmore'. Trial workings with the rocker seen across the lower margin. Inscribed in graphite at lower right: 'Lady Taylor'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso: '?CBM' [?Charles Brinsley Marlay]; '44'; 'J.C.S. 80 / Lady Taylor'. 'Lady Taylor' is listed in Nagler's paragraph of 'Portraiten nach J. Reynolds' on p.383 and not in Nagler's long list with annotated numbers. Dickinson also engraved a mezzotint portrait of Lady Taylor's husband, Sir John Taylor after Robert Edge Pine (See Notes). Both Pine's portrait of Sir John and Reynold's portrait of Lady Taylor were given by Sir John to his sister, Anne Taylor (d. before 1786) who married, circa 1760, Robert [Bontine Cunninghame-] Graham, 6th of Gartmore (1735-1797).

School or Style

British