Green (Valentine)

after Sir Joshua Reynolds, full length portrait in a long flowing silk dress with a long billowing scarf draped around her arms, standing in a windswept landscape under a dramatic stormy sky, after the oil painting exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1779, and now at Waddesdon, this was one of the first of such full length portrait mezzotints issued as part of a series of ‘Beauties of the Present Age’,

mezzotint, 635 x 385 mm. (25 x 15 1/8 in), narrow margins shaved close to the image towards the left of the upper ge and towards to top of the right edge, a small loss to the blank lower left corner of the title field, [Chaloner Smith 1883 61.I; Mannings 804],