Portret van Barbara Beresford, Elizabeth Gardiner en Anne Townshend als de drie gratiën, Thomas Watson, after Joshua Reynolds, 1776

Title(s)

Portret van Barbara Beresford, Elizabeth Gardiner en Anne Townshend als de drie gratiën

Object type

• print

Object number

RP-P-OB-73.148

Catalogue reference

• Chaloner Smith 6
• Aantal staten bekend-1(4)
  Remark: Russell, 1926.

Inscriptions / marks

• collector's mark: Lugt 2228
• inscription: ‘Lady Townshend and Sisters’

Artist

• print maker: Thomas Watson (mentioned on object)
• after painting by: Joshua Reynolds (mentioned on object)
• publisher: Walter Shropshire (mentioned on object)

Place

print maker: England
publisher: London

Dating

Jan-1776

Material

• paper

Measurements

height 563 mm × width 688 mm

What

• historical persons - BB - woman
• Graces (Charites), generally three in number; 'Gratie' (Ripa)
• sisters (second degree family relationships)
• garland, wreath
• statues, sculptures in garden

Who

• Anne Townshend (burggravin)
• Barbara Beresford
• Elizabeth Gardiner

Acquisition

unknown 1997

Copyright

Public domain

• English mezzotint portraits and their states from the invention of mezzotinting until the early part of the 19th century, dl. 2, p. 397-398, cat.nr. 6-I
• British Mezzotinters : Thomas Watson, James Watson, Elisabeth Judkins, cat.nr. 26
• British mezzotints portraits : being a descriptive catalogue of these engravings from the introduction of the art to the early part of the present century, dl. 4, p. 1553, cat.nr. 6