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H More [print] / from the original painting by H.W. Pickersgill, A.R.A.

BIB_ID
455851
Accession number
MA 4500
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 print : steel engraving ; image: 185 x 140 mm; sheet: 234 x 165 mm
Notes
Title from caption reproducing Hannah More's signature in facsimile.
Issued as an illustration in: Portrait Gallery of Eminent Men and Women of Europe and America / by Evert A. Duyckinck (New York : H.J. Johnson, ©1873), volume 1.
Library's copy trimmed within plate mark. NNPM
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Summary
Portrait; three-quarters length seated directed slightly to left, looking directly towards the viewer, arms on the elbows of her chair, holding spectacles in a case in her right hand, wearing an empire line gown, a shawl with a decorated hem and a frilled bonnet and ruff, with an inkstand, candlestick and letter on a covered table to right and a curtain behind.