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Mrs Anne Catherine Fitzgerald (née Burton): PD.210-1961

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Mrs Anne Catherine Fitzgerald (née Burton)

Maker(s)

Miniaturist: Hone, Horace

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Notes

History note: By descent in the family to Mrs T.A.G. Strickland; Louis C.G. Clarke

Legal notes

Bequeathed 1960.

Measurements and weight

Height: 78 mm
Width: 64 mm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1961) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Dating

1780s
Production date: AD 1787

School or Style

British

Materials used in production

Watercolour

Components of the work

Support composed of ivory

Techniques used in production

Watercolour : Watercolour on ivory

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: H H
  • Location: Lower right
  • Method of creation: Black
  • Type: Signature
  • Text: 1787
  • Location: Lower right, below the above
  • Method of creation: Black
  • Type: Date
  • Text: April 1837 / Mrs Fitzgerald / her picture to / be given to her / G Gd daughter / Anne Fitzgerald / ... [signature]
  • Location: Frame, verso, on label
  • Method of creation: Ink
  • Text: T.A.G. Strickland, 2 Bene't Place Cambridge / [in ink] My Great Great Grandmother / Anne Catherine Fitzgerald née Burton Edward Fitzgerald, Esq / of Carrygoran Co. Clare / M.P. for that County and Colonel of Volunteers 1782 / rebuilt Carrygoran
  • Location: Frame, verso
  • Method of creation: Printed
  • Text: (Married) Anne Catherine, Daughter / and co-heiress of Major / Thomas Burton, 5th Dragoon / Guards (Uncle of Francis Burton, Lord Conyngham) / by Dorothy, his wife, daughter / of the Right Hon. John / Forster, Lord Chief Justice / of the Common Pleas, / second wife
  • Location: Frame, verso
  • Method of creation: Printed

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Identification numbers

Accession number: PD.210-1961
Primary reference Number: 18019

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Wednesday 15 October 2025

Associated departments & institutions

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

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