[After Sir Godfrey Kneller. Engraved by John Smith.]
[n.d., c.1700.]
Mezzotint, rare proof before letters. 350 x 245mm (13¾ x 9¾"). Trimmed close to plate in upper right corner. Ink mss in bottom mrgin.
Full-length portraits of William and Mary Villiers as children, by a fountain in an ornamental garden, with Mary holding a lamb. William Villers (c.1682-1721), styled Viscount Villiers from 1697 to 1711, when he became 2nd Earl of Jersey in the Jacobite peerage. Mary (died 1735), married Thomas Thynne, who died in 1710, after which she married George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne.
CS 259 i of ii. Ex: collection of The Hon. Christopher Lennox-Boyd.
[Ref: 68564]  £320.00