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Lady Catherine Powlet, daughter of his Grace the Duke of Bolton

December 1, 1786
Not on view
Lady Catherine Powett is shown seated with a greyhound, wearing a loose robe with pearls in her short, curly hair. A curtain and rosebush are used to frame the figure and a landscape seen in the distance. The sitter was second daughter and coheiress of the 6th Duke of Bolton and his second wife Catherine Lowther. Her obituary (Gentleman's Magazine, 1807, pp. 679-80) praises her beauty which "afforded a most gratifying subject to the pencils of a Cosway and a Reynolds, [yet] she never betrayed the smallest symptom of vanity."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Lady Catherine Powlet, daughter of his Grace the Duke of Bolton
  • Engraver: John Raphael Smith (British, baptized Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster)
  • Artist: After Sir Joshua Reynolds (British, Plympton 1723–1792 London)
  • Publisher: John Raphael Smith (British, baptized Derby 1751–1812 Doncaster)
  • Publisher: William Dickinson (British, London? 1746/47?–1823 Paris)
  • Sitter: Lady Catherine Margaret Powlett (British, 1766–1807)
  • Date: December 1, 1786
  • Medium: Mezzotint; fourth state of four
  • Dimensions: Plate: 18 × 14 in. (45.7 × 35.6 cm)
    Sheet: 19 3/4 in. × 14 in. (50.2 × 35.6 cm)
  • Classification: Prints
  • Credit Line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
  • Object Number: 24.63.321
  • Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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