Painted by Sir Joshua Reynolds. Engrav'd by V: Green, Mezzotinto Engraver to his Majesty, & to the Elector Palatine.
Publish'd by V: Green, N.o 29, Newman Street, & at N.o 59, Strand, Jan.y 1st, 1779. Se vend à Londres, chez les Freres Torre, Marchands d'Estampes.
Fine mezzotint. 460 x 330mm (18 x 13"). Framed in a good 'Daniel' type frame. Small margins. Unexamined out of frame.
A three-quarter portrait of Henrietta Herbert (1758-1830), daughter of Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, painted by Reynolds in 1777, seven years before she married Edward Clive, son of Clive of India, in 1784. In 1798 she accompanied her husband to India when he was made Governor of Madras, where she built collections of minerals and curiosities and created a botanic garden; her journals are one of the first written accounts of India by a British woman. The painting remains at her family estate, Powis Castle: at some point after this engraving was made her hair was overpainted with a hat and silk scarf.
CS 41; Whitman 71, ii. Provenance Brussels Gentleman's Club.
[Ref: 59522]  £520.00