File:Thomas Rowlandson, Portrait of the Spencer Sisters (c. 1782).jpg

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Thomas Rowlandson: English: Portrait of the Spencer Sisters   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
Artist
Thomas Rowlandson  (1757–1827)  wikidata:Q318584 s:en:Author:Thomas Rowlandson
 
Thomas Rowlandson
Description English painter, drawer, etcher and illustrator
Date of birth/death 13 July 1757 Edit this at Wikidata 21 April 1827 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Old Jewry London
Work location
London, Paris (1774), France, Germany, Italy, Rotterdam (ca. 1794),
Amsterdam (ca. 1794), Netherlands (ca. 1794)
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artist QS:P170,Q318584
Title
English: Portrait of the Spencer Sisters
Description
English: A portrait of The Duchess of Devonshire) and her sister Viscountess Duncannon (later Countess of Bessborough). The portrait is now a trademark for Boswell's Café in Covent Garden, London.
Date 1790
date QS:P571,+1790-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium black and gray watercolor, pen and ink over graphite on cream-colored laid paper mounted on moderately thick, moderately textured, wove paper
Dimensions height: 50 cm (19.6 in); width: 42.5 cm (16.7 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,50U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,42.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q6352575
Current location
Paul Mellon Collection.
New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America.
Accession number
B1975.3.141
Inscriptions No inscription; signed and dated lower left: "Rowlandson - 1790"
Notes original source In the original image upload description, Lady Duncannon was misidentified as Lady Elizabeth Foster.
References •Foreman, Amanda (2001) Georgiana's World: the Illustrated Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, London: HarperCollins, pp. p. 154 ISBN 0007122764
Source/Photographer Yale/Paul Mellon. JPEG version created with IrfanView.
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