Marguerite Lemon, Angloise (Margaret Lemon, Englishwoman)
Portrait of Margaret Lemon, half length to right, holding flowers. Etched after an earlier portrait by Anthony van Dyck of Margaret Lemon, the painter’s most famous mistress
The first four lines, below the title are a paean to the youth and beauty for which Lemon was celebrated among the greatest of the English nobility. They may be translated:
Flora, Thisbe, Lucretia, and Porcia and Cypris
Cannot dispute with me the prize for love.
In the isle of Albion I was almost worshipped,
By a thousand great lords I saw myself honoured . . .
The first four lines, below the title are a paean to the youth and beauty for which Lemon was celebrated among the greatest of the English nobility. They may be translated:
Flora, Thisbe, Lucretia, and Porcia and Cypris
Cannot dispute with me the prize for love.
In the isle of Albion I was almost worshipped,
By a thousand great lords I saw myself honoured . . .
Artwork Details
- Title: Marguerite Lemon, Angloise (Margaret Lemon, Englishwoman)
- Engraver: Wenceslaus Hollar (Bohemian, Prague 1607–1677 London)
- Artist: After Anthony van Dyck (Flemish, Antwerp 1599–1641 London)
- Publisher: Hendrik van der Borcht II (Dutch, Frankenthal 1614– ca. 1690 Antwerp)
- Sitter: Margaret Lemon (British, born 1613/14)
- Date: 1646
- Medium: Etching; second state of two according to Pennington who notes a first state before letters in the Albertina.
- Dimensions: Sheet: 10 3/16 × 6 7/8 in. (25.8 × 17.5 cm) cut outside the image and text but on and within the platemark/
- Classification: Prints
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1920
- Object Number: 20.81.3.271
- Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints
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