[Sarah Delaval, Countess of Mexborough]
[by Thomas Worlidge]
Etching, platemark 105 x 85mm (4 x 3¼"). Thread margins; good impression on laid paper; glued to backing sheet.
Portrait of Sarah Delaval (d.1821), countess of John Savile, first earl of Mexborough. It was at a visit to their residence at Cannon Park, Hampshire, that actor and playwright Samuel Foote suffered his famous accident after being thrown from the Duke of York's horse. By Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
W42; D65; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33040] £95.00
Etching, platemark 105 x 85mm (4 x 3¼"). Thread margins; good impression on laid paper; glued to backing sheet.
Portrait of Sarah Delaval (d.1821), countess of John Savile, first earl of Mexborough. It was at a visit to their residence at Cannon Park, Hampshire, that actor and playwright Samuel Foote suffered his famous accident after being thrown from the Duke of York's horse. By Thomas Worlidge (1700 - 1766), 'the English Rembrandt' and a pupil of Alessandro Maria Grimaldi, whose daughter Arabella he married.
W42; D65; Ex collection of the Late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 33040] £95.00