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Mezzotint plate 13½ x 9¾" (345 x 245mm), with wide margins. Small tear that goes into the image but not into the oval.
A bust portrait of Griezel Hume, née Ker, Countess of Marchmont in an oval. She wears a loose, plain dress, robe and her hair is styled in a half up half down do. Her husband Sir Patrick Hume, 2nd Baronet, was a Scottish statesman and was a supsected conspirator in the Rye House Plot. So the family fled to the Netherlands. They returned to Scotland after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He once again joined the Scottish parliament as the commissioner for Berwickshire until becoming Lord Polwarth in 1690. Then he was made Lord Chancellor in 1696 and Earl of Marchmont in 1697, although when Anne came to the throne in 1702 he lost his chancellorship. They are the parents of songwriter and accountant Lady Grizel Baillie famous for her song "Werna my Heart Licht I Wad Dee" (Were not My Heart Light I would Die).
[Ref: 54789] £160.00
Mezzotint plate 13½ x 9¾" (345 x 245mm), with wide margins. Small tear that goes into the image but not into the oval.
A bust portrait of Griezel Hume, née Ker, Countess of Marchmont in an oval. She wears a loose, plain dress, robe and her hair is styled in a half up half down do. Her husband Sir Patrick Hume, 2nd Baronet, was a Scottish statesman and was a supsected conspirator in the Rye House Plot. So the family fled to the Netherlands. They returned to Scotland after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. He once again joined the Scottish parliament as the commissioner for Berwickshire until becoming Lord Polwarth in 1690. Then he was made Lord Chancellor in 1696 and Earl of Marchmont in 1697, although when Anne came to the throne in 1702 he lost his chancellorship. They are the parents of songwriter and accountant Lady Grizel Baillie famous for her song "Werna my Heart Licht I Wad Dee" (Were not My Heart Light I would Die).
[Ref: 54789] £160.00