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Portrait bust said to be of Dorothy, Countess of Suffolk (but probably representing Susan Howard, Countess of Suffolk). With shoulder-length curly hair, directed and looking to right, wearing headdress with white feather, pearl earrings and necklace and low-cut loose gown; in an oval inside rectangular frame, with scrolled ornament and head of faun below
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Title: Countess of Suffolk
Etcher:
Peregrine Lovell (British, active 1646–47)
Artist:
Formerly attributed to Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
Publisher:
Johannes Meyssens (Flemish, Brussels 1612–1670 Antwerp)
Sitter:
Probably Susan Howard, Countess of Suffolk (British, died 1649)
Date: 1646–70
Medium: Etching; second state of three (New Hollstein)
Dimensions: Sheet: 7 1/16 × 4 15/16 in. (18 × 12.5 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
Accession Number: 20.81.3.256
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