[Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace] [print] / painted by L. Ferriere ... ; engraved by E. Scriven.

Record ID: 
377890
Accession number: 
MA 1293.40
Author: 
Scriven, Edward, 1775-1841, engraver.
Published: 
[London : Published as the Act directs by John Murray, Albemarle Street, April 15, 1825]
Credit: 
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description: 
1 print : engraving ; 184 x 123 mm
Notes: 

According to caption, painting and engraving were executed in 1820.
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Printed in lower right corner: Proof.

Summary: 

Head-and-shoulders portrait of Ada Lovelace, mathematician and daughter of Lord Byron, as a child, facing front.

Provenance: 
Kaye Dowland.
Classification: