IDENTIFIERS
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id:	240048
accession number:	P.15001-R

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Thursday 9 January 2020
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: After the posthumous portrait by Scottish portraitist, Catherine Read (1723-1778). Half length in an oval frame, facing right and head inclined in this direction, looking out at the spectator. The sitter wears an ermine fur over her right shoulder and drapery over her left which is gathered in a strand of pearls hanging from her neck. A pearl dropper earring hangs in her right ear. Maria was the eldest daughter of Irishman, John Gunning (of Castle Coote, Co. Roscommon) who married George William, 6th Earl of Coventry on 5th March, 1752. She died on 30th September, 1760, aged 27 from lead poisoning caused by overuse of Venetian Ceruse (a whitening cosmetic for the face which contained white lead).
title:	print

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Paintings, Drawings and Prints
creditline: Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/240048





TECHNIQUES
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mezzotint

CATEGORIES
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category: print

DATING
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creation date:	1771 - 1771
creation date earliest:	1771
creation date latest:	1771
culture:	18th Century#

CREATORS
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maker: Finlayson, John
maker: Finlayson, John
maker: Read, Catherine