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Mrs Hardinge: P.15107-R

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Mrs Hardinge
Lucy Hardinge

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Watson, Thomas
Publisher: Watson, Thomas
Publisher: Dickinson, William
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Entities

Categories

Description

After the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds (Painted probably mostly in 1778; Mannings, 837; Harewood House, Leeds); Lucy, daughter and heiress of Richard Long of Hinxton, Cambridgeshire married George Hardinge, October 20, 1777. Standing, three-quarter-length to the front, looking towards the left, a spaniel jumping up from the right. A band in her hair and pearls and a scarf tied at her breast, blowing in an imaginary breeze from the right. A wooded landscape behind, birch trees to the left.

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: 1780-02-10 AD 1780

Note

Mezzotint. Proof with letters before the publication line erased in the third state. Artists' names engraved italics: 'Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds . Engrav'd by Tho.s Watson.' Publication line engraved in upright letters: 'London.Published Feb.y 10th. 1780. for Watson & Dickinson N.o 158. New Bond Street.' Inscribed in graphite in the margins at lower right: 'Miss Hardinge'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso in curatorial hand: 'CBM [Charles Brinsley Marlay]; 'Mrs Hardinge' and print references; '22' in Marlay's own hand (with curlicues). Collector's stamp of Xaver Maria Cäsur von Schönberg-Rothschönberg (L.2266).

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.15107-R
Primary reference Number: 240135
Goodwin (Watson): 39.II
Chaloner Smith: 18.II
Lugt: L.2266
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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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