Inscribed in artist's hand on paper backing n pen and brown ink: "Eliza | Countess of Hopetown | R.dus Cosway R.A. | Primarius Pictor | Serenissimi Walliae | Principus | Pinxit | 1789"
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Public Domain
Accession Number:
B1974.2.18
Classification:
Drawings & Watercolors-Miniatures
Collection:
Prints and Drawings
Subject Terms:
portrait | female
Currently On View:
Not on view
Exhibition History:
An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)An American's Passion for British Art - Paul Mellon's Legacy (Royal Academy of Arts, 2007-10-20 - 2008-01-27)Paul Mellon's Legacy : A Passion for British Art (Yale Center for British Art, 2007-04-18 - 2007-07-29)The Line of Beauty : British Drawings and Watercolors of the Eighteenth Century (Yale Center for British Art, 2001-05-19 - 2001-08-05)Richard and Maria Cosway - Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion (National Portrait Gallery, 1996-11-17 - 1997-02-18)Richard and Maria Cosway - Regency Artists of Taste and Fashion (Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1995-08-11 - 1995-10-29)English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures (Yale Center for British Art, 1979-12-05 - 1980-02-17)
Publications:
John Baskett, Paul Mellon's Legacy: a Passion for British Art: Masterpieces from the Yale Center for British Art, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, p. 263, no. 46, pl. 46, N5220 M552 P38 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Christie's sale catalogue : English and Continental miniatures : 18 February 1969, Christie's, 1969, p. 28, lot 118, Auction Catalogues (YCBA)Stephen Lloyd, Richard & Maria Cosway: regency artists of taste and fashion, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh, p. 61, cat. 68, NJ18 C7985 L56 1995 (LC)+ Oversize (YCBA)Patrick Noon, English Portrait Drawings & Miniatures, Yale Center for British Art, 1979, pp. 50-51, no. 53, NC772 N66+ (Wall Shelf) (YCBA)Paul Mellon's Legacy : a passion for British art [large print labels], , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2007, v. 2, no. 46, N5220 M552 P381 2007 OVERSIZE (YCBA)Troubled life of Elizabeth Carnegie (1750-1793), third Countess of Hopetoun, Hopetoun, 2000, p. 7, V 1117Scott Wilcox, Line of beauty : British drawings and watercolors of the eighteenth century, , Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, 2001, p.33, cat. no. 20, NC228 W53 2001 (YCBA)