Portrait of a Lady, by Peter Lely

An image of Portrait of a Lady; probably Mary Parsons, later Mrs Draper. Lely, Peter (British, 1618-1680). Oil on canvas, height 126.1 cm, width 101.6 cm, circa 1665. After cleaning.

Terms of use

These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.

Download this image

Creative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.

Portrait of a Lady; probably Mary Parsons, later Mrs Draper. Lely, Peter (British, 1618-1680). Oil on canvas, height 126.1 cm, width 101.6 cm, circa 1665. After cleaning.

Image data

Accession Number: 2442
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/13.0
Focal length: 50
Camera: Canon EOS-1Ds Mark II
Photographer name: Chris Titmus
Image height: 1025 pixels
Image width: 837 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 817.71kB
Exposure time: 1/40
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 13/1
Captured: 2009:06:16 11:06:23

Key words

17th Century _WF_HKI aristocracy aristocratic British School brunette clothes clothing costume curls curly dark haired dress earring elegant English fashion fashionable female Fitz_PDP gold dress graceful hair hairstyle jewelled jewellery jewels lady Lely oil on canvas painting pearl earrings pearls Peter Lely portraits pretty Restoration ringlets satin silk sitting slashed sleeve sleeve society portraiture Stuart Period three quarter woman young

Citation for print

This page can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:


            The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024)
            "Portrait of a Lady, by Peter Lely"
            Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-217715 Accessed: 2024-04-19 09:27:41

Citation for Wikipedia

To cite this page on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:


            {{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/image/media-217715
            |title=Portrait of a Lady, by Peter Lely
            |author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-04-19 09:27:41|publisher=The
            University of Cambridge}}

API call for this record

To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:

https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/images/media-217715

Bootstrap HTML code for reuse

To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:

<div class="text-center">
    <figure class="figure">
        <img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/pdp/pdp82/2442_200906_hki_dc2.jpg"
        alt="Portrait of a Lady; probably Mary Parsons, later Mrs Draper"
        class="img-fluid" />
        <figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Portrait of a Lady, by Peter Lely</figcaption>
    </figure>
</div>