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Dateprobably between 1751 and 1772
MediumEngraving
DimensionsComposition/Sheet: 7 3/4 × 4 3/4 in. (19.7 × 12.1 cm)
Credit LineGift of Robert Dance
Object number1992.75
Not on view
DescriptionPortrait of Augusta Saxe-Gotha, Princess Dowager of Wales.
Text reads: "Her Royal Highness Augusta, (Saxe-Gotha) Princess Dowager of Wales. Born 30th Novr 1719'; around rectangular border: 'A Virtuous Woman is far above Rubies / She Openeth Her Mouth with Wisdom and / In Her Tongue is the Law of Kindness / Her children arise up, & call Her Blessed Prov: XXXI Chap", below other references to 1 Timothy V and I Peter III
Portrait; half length, to right; wearing dress with three jewelled bows on stomacher; in oval frame decorated with angel heads and wings, and lines from scripture.
Etching and stipple
Additional Details
Alternate Titles
Augusta Saxe-Gotha, Princess Dowager of Wales
Provenance
1992: Hamilton College (Fred L. Emerson Gallery), by gift of Robert Dance.
Inscribed
Inscribed in pencil on verso at lower right: 1
Underwood & Underwood Publishers
Date: c. 1900
Medium: Gelatin silver prints mounted on cardstock
Object number: S2023.1.19
Thomas Nast
Date: published June 26, 1869
Medium: Wood engraving on newsprint
Object number: 2019.13.107
Date: mid-16th century
Medium: Double-sided watercolor, ink, and gold leaf on paper
Object number: 1986.29.1a-b
Date: early 19th century
Medium: Gouache and gold over white ground on paper
Object number: 1986.26
Julia Margaret Cameron
Date: 1867 (published 1893)
Medium: Photogravure, mounted on matboard
Object number: 1990.6
Karen Hampton
Date: 2015
Medium: Dye-sublimation print on polyester twill over archival inkjet print on silk organza, with hand-stitching
Object number: 2015.4