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Mrs Carnac: P.15084-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Mrs Carnac
Elizabeth Carnac

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Smith, John Raphael
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Entities

Categories

Description

After the painting by Sir Joshua Reynolds (1775-6; Mannings, 311; Wallace Collection, London, P35). Elizabeth Carnac (1751-1780) was the daughter of Thomas Rivett MP who married John Carnac (1716-1800), a brigadier-general in the service of the East India Company, in 1769. She stands in a wooded, parkland landscape, full-length, facing front with her left hand tucked under her outer skirt, head turned in three-quarter profile to the right, wearing ostrich plumes in her hair.

Legal notes

Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century#
Production date: 1778-06-10 AD 1778

Note

Mezzotint printed in dark brown ink, with possible retouching around the eyes and mouth (see Notes) and with later hand colouring added in pink and blue pigments. Trimmed within the platemark. The laid paper support bears a large watermark and countermark. The watermark's design of the Christ symbol, 'I H S' and Latin cross indicates an eighteenth-century paper of French origin which most likely dates this trimmed impression to the period of the plate's original publication in 1778 (by Smith [Frankau, I-III] and Hannah Humphrey [Frankau, IV]) and to preclude the retouched plate published by Colnaghi in 1893 (Frankau, V). Inscribed on the verso in faded pen and ink: 'Mrs Carnac'. An illegible inscription in graphite on the verso at upper left. Inscribed on the verso in graphite, lower left: 'Col / April 49 / L. 11/'. This inscription may relate to when the print was coloured and its price: 'Col [coloured?] / April [18?]49 / L . 11/ [£11]'. P.68-1957 is an impression of the scratched letter state (Russell/Frankau, II).

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.15084-R
Primary reference Number: 240114
Hamilton: p.89
Chaloner Smith: 31
Frankau: 61
Russell (Chaloner Smith): 31
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 9 January 2020 Updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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