Duchess of Kingston : as she appeared at the Venetian Ambassador's ball in Somerset House / Gainsborough pinxt ; F. Chesham sculp.

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Francis Chesham
1749-1806
Duchess of Kingston : as she appeared at the Venetian Ambassador's ball in Somerset House / Gainsborough pinxt ; F. Chesham sculp.
[England : publisher not identified, 1788?]
Peel 1744
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[England : publisher not identified, 1788?]
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Formerly owned by Sir Robert Peel.
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Print appeared as a frontispiece plate in: An authentic detail of particulars relative to the late Duchess of Kingston. New edition. London : G. Kearsley, 1788.

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Portrait of Elizabeth Chudleigh as she appeared, notoriously costumed as Iphigenia, at the Venetian Ambassador's ball in Somerset House in 1749; here shown standing full length beside a smoking altar (left), facing the front, naked to the waist, with armlets and a thin veil floating over her shoulders.

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