The Ladies of Llangollen: Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1738/9-1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1754-1831) in their Library (after Mary Parker, Lady Leighton)
A. J. W.
Category
Art / Drawings and watercolours
Date
Unknown
Materials
Pencil on paper
Measurements
240 x 220 mm
Order this imageCollection
Calke Abbey, Derbyshire
NT 286274
Summary
Pencil drawing on paper, The Ladies of Llangollen: Lady Eleanor Charlotte Butler (1738/9-1829) and Sarah Ponsonby (1754-1831) in their Library. Initialled: A. J. W. Delt. A pencil drawing of two ladies seated at a table in a library. The table is covered in small Victorian objects. Probably copied, after a 1828 watercolour by Mary Leighton at Plas Newydd, Llangollen which was made into a lithograph in 1830s/40s by Richard James Lane (1800 - 1872), examples of which are in the National Portrait Gallery, London. An inscription below reads; 'The ladies of Llangollen/Miss Ponsonby/The Rt.Honble Eleanor Butler'.
Marks and inscriptions
A.J.W. Delt (signed)
Makers and roles
A. J. W., artist