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Portrait of Lady Caroline Price (née Carpenter): P.67-1958

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Portrait of Lady Caroline Price (née Carpenter)

Maker(s)

Printmaker: Jones, John
Publisher: Jones, John
Painter: Reynolds, Joshua (After)

Entities

Categories

Description

After the portrait by Reynolds (1787; Mannings (Reynolds), 1482, pp.383-4; English Heritage, Ranger's House - The Wernher Collection). Married Sir Uvedale Price (1747- 1829) in 1774. Half-length, standing in three-quarter profile to the left. Wears a redingcote with wide collar and large buttons with frothy cravat at the neck and powdered wig.

Legal notes

Given by Louis C. G. Clarke, May 1958

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1958) by Clarke, Louis Colville Gray

Dating

18th Century
Production date: AD 1788

Note

Mezzotint. Proof before title. Trimmed within the platemark. Engraved with artists' names on grounded inscription space; at lower left: 'Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds' and lower right: 'Engraved by John Jones'. The publication details have apparently been trimmed off. These are described in Chaloner Smith and see impression in BM 1868,0822.2123. Inscribed on mount in pen and ink: 'Lady Caroline Carpenter, Wife of Uvedale Price Esq'. Inscribed in graphite on the verso: '37615'; Fitzwilliam Museum label bearing Clarke acquisition: 'Louis C.G. Clarke M.A. / Trinity Hall / May 1958 / P.67-1958'.

School or Style

British

Techniques used in production

Mezzotint

Related exhibitions

Identification numbers

Accession number: P.67-1958
Primary reference Number: 223243
Chaloner Smith: 64.I
O'Donoghue: 1
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Audit data

Created: Thursday 2 August 2018 Updated: Wednesday 6 March 2019 Last processed: Friday 8 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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