Thomas Wright, Sir Peter van der Faes Lely
Portrait of Anne Digby, Countess of Sunderland
1832
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Thomas Wright, Sir Peter van der Faes Lely
Portrait of Anne Digby, Countess of Sunderland
1832
Physical Qualities
Stipple and etching on chine collé, Sheet: 370 × 260 mm. (14 9/16 × 10 1/4 in.)
Plate: 285 × 200 mm. (11 1/4 × 7 7/8 in.)
Credit Line
Garrett Collection
Object Number
1984.81.4519
Illustration in Anna Brownwell Jameson's 'Memoirs of the Beauties of the Court of Charles II' (London: 1833). See BM 1859,0709.1485. After the painting by Lely at Hampton Court RCIN 404515. The painitng is part of the "Windsor Beauties", a famous collection of paintings by Sir Peter Lely, painted in the early to mid-1660s. The name stems from the original location of the collection, which was housed in the Queen's bedchamber in Windsor Castle. They can now be seen at Hampton Court Palace.
Inscribed: lower right in graphite: "Sunderland"
Markings: CM: Claghorn