Lady Flora Hastings (1806-1839)
John Horsburgh (Prestonpans 1791 - Edinburgh 1869)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1842
Materials
Paper
Place of origin
Edinburgh
Collection
Mottisfont, Hampshire
NT 770130.50
Summary
Print engraving of Lady Flora Hastings (1806-1839). Half-length portrait of a seated woman in a shawl. Landscape view behind. Engraved by John Horsburgh (1791-1869) after Kenneth Macleay (1802-1878). Published by William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London, 1842. Published as the frontispiece in Poems by the Lady Flora Hastings (1842). Part of a portfolio of engravings and copy photographs of members of the Russell and related families.
Provenance
Gifted to the National Trust from the Estate of Anne Russell, by Julian Russell, Laura Beresford and Emily Russell, 2018.
Makers and roles
John Horsburgh (Prestonpans 1791 - Edinburgh 1869), engraver (printmaker) after Kenneth Macleay (Oban 1802 - Edinburgh 1878), artist William Blackwood and Sons Ltd., publisher