Miss Vernon as The Seamstress (after George Romney)
Thomas Cheesman (1760 – London after 1834)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
25 Apr 1787
Materials
Paper, wood, glass
Measurements
590 mm (H); 493 mm (W); 396 mm (H); 310 mm (W)
Place of origin
Cheapside
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1252166
Summary
Print, engraving, Miss Vernon as The Seamstress (after George Romney) by Thomas Cheesman (1760 – London after 1834) Full-length portrait of a woman sitting outside, wearing a hat and sewing by T. Cheesman after George Romney. The print was formerly mistaken for Emma Hart, Lady Hamilton. The reason for the lack of Christian name is apparently because of some dispute as to which Miss Vernon is depicted. One Miss Vernon is Caroline Vernon, Mrs Robert Percy Smith and who married in 1797 and was the daughter of Richard Vernon of Hilton Park and his wife Lady Evelyn Leveson_gower (1724-1763). The other Miss Vernon is Lucy Vernon (d.1783), the third daughter of Henry Vernon of Hilton Park (1718-1765) and Lady Henrietta Wentworth (1720-1786). (see Alex Kidson, George Romney, The Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, No.901, pp.409-410)
Marks and inscriptions
D.R. / No. 7 - / (Under) (in pencil, above keft to label, under nearly readable)
Makers and roles
Thomas Cheesman (1760 – London after 1834), engraver (printmaker) after George Romney (Dalton-in-Furness 1734 – Kendal 1802), original artist John Boydell I (Dorrington 1719 – Cheapside, London 1804), engraver and publisher Josiah Boydell (Hawarden 1752 – Halliford 1817), engraver and publisher