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Three-quarter-length, standing, facing front, wearing an ermine-trimmed robe and tasselled belt, a necklace of pearls, pearls also in her hair. Her head cocked to the left but looking towards the right at a songbird which is perched on her left hand."}],"identifier":[{"accession_number":"P.15015-R","primary":true,"type":"accession number","value":"P.15015-R"},{"priref":"240078","type":"priref","value":"240078"},{"type":"Chaloner Smith","value":"100.I (pp.682-3)"},{"type":"O'Donoghue","value":"5"},{"type":"Nagler (K\u00fcnstler-Lexicon)","value":"6.59 (p.328)"},{"type":"uri","uri":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/240078","value":"https:\/\/data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk\/id\/object\/240078"}],"institutions":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"legal":{"credit_line":"Bequeathed by Charles Brinsley Marlay, 1912"},"lifecycle":{"acquisition":[{"agents":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149674","uid":"adlib-agent-149674","uuid":"de1bf9dd-2091-39ca-85f6-41e736f6e32b"},"summary_title":"Marlay, Charles Brinsley"}],"date":[{"earliest":1912,"latest":1912,"value":"1912"}],"method":{"value":"bequeathed"}}],"creation":[{"date":[{"earliest":1771,"era":["CE"],"latest":1771,"precision":"before 1771-05-01","value":"1771"}],"maker":[{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"printmaker"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-65110","uid":"adlib-agent-65110","uuid":"9fca40ad-6ba3-3a86-8168-d46d41fad613"},"summary_title":"Houston, Richard"},{"@link":{"role":[{"value":"publisher"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-121578","uid":"adlib-agent-121578","uuid":"2b970d25-b59c-3a71-9199-a37caf65326e"},"summary_title":"Sayer, Robert"},{"@link":{"qualifier":"after","role":[{"value":"painter"}],"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-114271","uid":"adlib-agent-114271","uuid":"caff4b6f-c91d-36a3-b2ab-38cf4c81da19"},"summary_title":"Reynolds, Joshua"}],"note":[{"value":"Mezzotint. Scratched letter proof before inscriptions and with uncleaned inscription space. Scratched at lower left: 'Sir Joshua Reynolds pinxt.' and at lower right: 'Rich.d Houston fecit.' Scratched in open roman letters at upper centre of the inscription space: 'R. Sayer Excudit'.  Inscribed on the verso in graphite: 'CBM' [Charles Brinsley Marlay]; '15'; 'Miss Powell'; 'Harriet Powell'; 'S.100 I' [Chaloner Smith]. The finished print features two stanzes of engraved verse from Isaac Bickerstaffe's libretto for Charles Dibdin's comic opera, The Padlock (first performed, 1768). See BM 1902,1011.2697. The verse identifies the bird in this scene from the opera as a robin and colour reproductions of the original oil painting when it was sold at Christies in 2006 confirm that the colouring corresponds with that of a robin and not a goldfinch as has been cited elsewhere."}],"periods":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-136481","uid":"adlib-term-136481","uuid":"ff114b08-4aa4-38d7-be1c-bf772a6edbea"},"summary_title":"18th Century"}]}]},"name":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-98032","uid":"adlib-term-98032","uuid":"82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea"},"summary_title":"print"}}],"owners":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"agent-149638","uid":"adlib-agent-149638","uuid":"7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8"},"summary_title":"The Fitzwilliam Museum"}],"school_or_style":[{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-8402","uid":"adlib-term-8402","uuid":"18ed0f08-54b5-3bda-9753-b3d0a4d71d4e"},"summary_title":"Irish"}],"summary":{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-98032","uid":"adlib-term-98032","uuid":"82c0807b-e8e4-3d5c-ac68-1a6390880fea"},"summary_title":"print"}},"summary_title":"print","techniques":[{"reference":{"@link":{"type":"reference"},"admin":{"id":"term-29420","uid":"adlib-term-29420","uuid":"cdde8bbf-3351-30b6-a408-35afb32359aa"},"summary_title":"mezzotint"}}],"title":[{"value":"Miss Harriet Powell"},{"type":"assigned","value":"Harriet Powell in the character of Leonora from Charles Dibdin's comic opera, The Padlock (1768)"}],"type":{"base":"object","type":"OBJECT"}}