Lady Lavinia Bingham, Countess Spencer (1762-1831) with her Son, John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845) (after Sir Joshua Reynolds)
Samuel Cousins (Exeter 1801 - London 1887)
Category
Art / Prints
Date
1877
Materials
Mezzotint on paper
Measurements
660 x 486 mm
Place of origin
Manchester
Collection
Nunnington Hall, North Yorkshire
NT 979881
Summary
Mezzotint engraving, Lady Lavinia Bingham, Countess Spencer (1762-1831) with her Son, John Charles Spencer, Viscount Althorp, later 3rd Earl Spencer (1782-1845) (after Sir Joshua Reynolds) by Samuel Cousins (1801 - 1887), published 1877. A full-length portrait of a mother and child, Countess Spencer and her child, later Lord Althorp, sitting in a landscape wearing a white dress, black shawl and hat, her left arm around her child. A small dog to her right looking up.
Provenance
Kathleen Cooper Abbs (1901-1974) bequest
Marks and inscriptions
Published 1st Dec 1877 by P and D Colnaghi, 13 and 14 Pall Mall East and by Thos McLean, 7 Haymarket, London and by Thos Agnew and Sons, 14 Exchange Street, Manchester
Makers and roles
Samuel Cousins (Exeter 1801 - London 1887), engraver (printmaker) after Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (Plympton 1723 - London 1792), artist Thomas Agnew and Sons Ltd, engraver and publisher Thomas McLean, engraver and publisher P. and D. Colnaghi, engraver and publisher