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Lady Mary Coke

Lady Mary Coke

Artist/Maker (English, 1727/1728–1765)
after (Scottish, 1713–1784)
Date1762
MediumMezzotint
DimensionsImage: 19 7/8 × 13 13/16 in. (50.5 × 35.1 cm)
Sheet: 20 × 14 in. (50.8 × 35.6 cm)
Credit LineAnnie A. Wager Bequest
Object number1975.76
Status
Not on view
More Information
Allan Ramsay, the leading British portraitist during the first half of the eighteenth century, had recently been appointed court painter to King George III when he created this image of Lady Mary Coke. By including the baroque theorbo - a long-necked lute - and seventeenth-century dress Ramsay recalls Anthony Van Dyck's style, thereby linking his own work with that of the esteemed Old Master.
Exhibition History
English Political Portraits of the Eighteenth Century
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (May 10, 1932 - June 7, 1932 )
Exhibition of English Political Portraits of the Eighteenth Century
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (January 7, 1936 - January 31, 1936 )
Images of Music
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (April 13, 1982 - May 20, 1982 )
Eighteenth-Century English Prints
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (June 19, 1987 - July 19, 1987 )
Musica Humana: A Dialogue between Music and the Visual Arts
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (March 26, 1996 - June 30, 1996 )
Out of Albion: British Art from the Allen Memorial Art Museum
  • Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH (August 26, 2008 - December 23, 2008 )
Collections
  • European
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