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Kitty Clive as 'The Fine Lady' in Lethe
Factory:
Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Printer:
Mosely, Charles
(After)
Painter:
Worlidge, Thomas
(After)
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Kitty Clive as 'The Fine Lady' in Lethe, press-moulded, and lead-glazed.
Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, figure of Kitty Clive as 'The Fine Lady' in Lethe, press-moulded and lead-glazed, including the inside walls of the pedestal. The figure is supported on a high square pedestal with cut corners and incurved sides, decorated on the front with a musical trophy in relief, and on the sides with frilling. 'The Fine Lady' stands facing the front, with her head back. She wears a pinner, a ruffle round her neck, a pet-en-lair jacket with a sack back, ruffled sleeves, and small bobbles on the cuffs and front edges, and a wide hooped skirt. She rests her left arm over the skirt and holds a lapdog under her right arm. The date '1750' is incised on the inside of one side of the pedestal.
History note: Mr Mansell, Bournemouth; Mrs W.D. Dickson
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 31.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1938) by Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
18th Century, Mid#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1750
The Dublin-born actress, Catherine Clive (née Rafter, 1711-85), known as Kitty, joined the cast of Garrick's farce, Lethe as Mrs Riot or 'The Fine Lady' in 1749.The Bow model of Kitty was derived from a mezzotint of 1750 by Charles Mosely, traditionally said to be after a water-clour drawing by Thomas Worlidge. For an illustration of the mezzotint, see Documentation, Yarborough, 1996.
Base
Depth 13.7 cm
Width 15.0 cm
Skirt
Width 17.3 cm
presumed lead
Lead-glaze
presumed phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
Press-moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain containing bone ash, press-moulded, and lead-glazed
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: circular inscribed in blue biro
Inscription present: circular
Accession number: EC.3-1938
Primary reference Number: 41984
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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