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- Title:
Eldest Princesses
- Date:
- 1793
- Medium:
- Mezzotint on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 24 5/8 × 18 inches (62.5 × 45.7 cm), Image: 23 1/4 × 18 inches (59.1 × 45.7 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Lettered below image, lower left: "Thos. Gainsborough Esqr. R.A. Pinxt."; lower center: "ELDEST PRINCESSES. | Pub. Sepr. 2. 1793, by Gainsborough Dupont, Grafton Street, Fitzroy Square."; lower right: "Gainsborough Dupont Sculpt."
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1970.3.365
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Access:
- Accessible by appointment in the Study Room [Request]
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- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:21858
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Hugh Belsey, Thomas Gainsborough: The portraits, fancy pictures and copies after old masters, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, fig. 170.1, NJ18.G16 B453 2019 (LC) Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]
James Hamilton, Gainsborough A Portrait, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, p. 331, NJ18.G16 H36 2017 (YCBA) [YCBA]
Joanna Marschner, Enlightened Princesses : Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the Shaping of the Modern World, Yale University Press, New Haven, Conn, 2017, p. 378, fig. 22.03, NX543 +.E55 2017 Oversize (YCBA) [YCBA]