"Countess Spencer" Mezzotint by Elizabeth Gulland (15"x 12")
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Item: Framed Mezzotint
Make: Printed by Elizabeth Gulland, (Bushey Hertfordshire, England) after Sir Joshua Reynolds
Age: 1909
Construction: Mezzotint Engraving on Paper, Painted Wood Frame, Glass
Dimensions: Overall 15 3/8" Tall x 12 3/8" Wide x 5/8" Deep
Condition: Excellent antique condition. Some light foxing of mat. Some loss of paint on frame. Would benefit from acid-free papers, mounting and treatment. Please see photos.
Details: Mezzotint engraving of Countess Spencer by Scottish artist Elizabeth Gulland, after Sir Joshua Reynolds. A young woman in 18th C dress featuring a white dress with ruffled collar and black belt, pale yellow straw hat. Cross-hatching is visible outside image all around. On upper right edge is "Copyright 1909 by E. L . Knoedler, New York", and at center bottom edge "London, published 1909 by H. C. Dickins, 26, Regent St S.W.". In lower left corner below image is a small round impressed seal with FG or EG at its center. A pencil signature of "E. Gulland" is outside the image at the lower right. The print is matted with cream or white darkened by age. The frame is narrow, gold-painted wood with once-white velvet applied between raised edges all around.
Elizabeth Gulland was a Scottish painter and printmaker. Born in Edinburgh in 1857, and educated in Edinburgh, she moved to Bushey, Hertfordshire to study at the Herkomer School of painting. She painted in oils and watercolor, and produced cover artwork for American authors published in England, but is perhaps best known as a printmaker, primarily mezzotint. Her work is heavily influenced and modelled by 18th C Rococo portraiture.