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Image 135 x 91 mm, Plate 150 x 93 mm, Sheet 212 x
127 mm
unmounted
Inscription below title reads: From a Picture of him in
the Possession of Marmaduke Lord Langdale,/ at Holme
on Spaldingmore. 1744.
Marmaduke Langdale, first Baron Langdale of Holme
(1598 - 1661) was a Royalist commander in the English
Civil War. In 1648 he escaped execution by the
Parlimentarians by fleeing to Spain. At the Restoration
he was created Baron Langdale.
William Humphrey (c.1742 - c.1814), was an engraver
and printseller who excelled in mezzotint portraits. He
was the elder brother of Hannah Humphrey, the London
bookseller who distributed the work of James Gillray.
Humphrey opened a print shop in 1774 from where he
specialised in the publication of satirical mezzotints,
publishing both his own engravings and those of other
artists. He gave up publishing at the beginning of the
1780s and concentrated instead on dealing in portrait
prints, acting as agent for many private collectors.
Chaloner Smith 11, O’Donoghue 1
[27650]
£95
40. The portraiture of the illustreous Princesse
Frances Duchess of Richmond and Lenox
Copper engraving
Francis Delaram
c.1650
Image 122 x 73 mm, Plate 130 x 73 mm, Sheet 131 x 75
mm
unmounted
An unrecorded impression that appears to be printed
from Delarams plate which has been cut within the
engraved surface obscuring the decorative frame.
Lady Frances Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and
Lennox, Countess of Hertford, née Howard (27 July
1578 – 8 October 1639) was the daughter of a younger
son of the Duke of Norfolk. An orphan of small fortune,
she rose to be the only duchess at the court of James I of
England. She married the son of a London alderman
who died in 1599, leaving her a wealthy widow at a
young age. She became, for 20 years, the third wife of
the ageing Edward Seymour, 1st Earl of Hertford,
nephew of Jane Seymour, third queen consort of Henry
VIII. Within months of Edward's death she married a
cousin of James I, Ludovic Stewart, 2nd Duke of
Lennox and 1st Duke of Richmond. One of the great
beauties of the Jacobean court, she was also the patron
of Captain John Smith of the Virginia Colony.
Francis Delaram (1590-1627). A contemporary of
Elstracke and the Van de Passes, Francis Delaram
engraved several hundred plates over his career. He was
especially successful as an engraver of portraits.
The original full size version of this plate is
O’Donoghue 3, Hind II.230.30
[27577]
£60