[Engraved by John Jones after Sir Joshua Reynolds.]
[engraved c.1785, but a later impression.]
Mezzotint. 380 x 280mm (15 x 11").
An unlettered half-length portrait of actress Frances Kemble (1759-1822), wearing a white dress with white double frill, before a plain background. Underneath is a panel surmounted with flowers including roses. The younger sister of Sarah Siddons, Kemble married a Shakespeare scholar, Francis Twiss. From 1807 she ran a girls' school in Bath.
CS 45. Russell 45, ii of iii; Hamilton p.113, ii of ii. Ex: collection of the late Hon. C. Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68325]  £180.00