![[Frances Cecil] The Countess of Salisbury.](jpegs/62762.jpg)
[Frances Cecil] The Countess of Salisbury.
G. Kneller Eques pinx:
J. Smith fe: & ex: [n.d., c.1696.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
Three-quarter length portrait of Frances Cecil (née Bennett, 1670-1713) in a landscape, wearing a widow's black high dress with a veil on her head. Her husband, James Cecil (1666-94), the 4th Earl of Salisbury, died on the 24th October 1694, aged only 28; only a month earlier Frances's mother had been murdered by a butcher who broke into her house.
Chaloner Smith 221, II.
[Ref: 62762] £180.00
J. Smith fe: & ex: [n.d., c.1696.]
Mezzotint, 18th century watermark; 345 x 250mm (13½ x 9¾"). Trimmed into plate at bottom, thread margins elsewhere.
Three-quarter length portrait of Frances Cecil (née Bennett, 1670-1713) in a landscape, wearing a widow's black high dress with a veil on her head. Her husband, James Cecil (1666-94), the 4th Earl of Salisbury, died on the 24th October 1694, aged only 28; only a month earlier Frances's mother had been murdered by a butcher who broke into her house.
Chaloner Smith 221, II.
[Ref: 62762] £180.00