Lady Mary Coke

McArdell, James (ca. 1729-1765)

Ramsay, Allan (1713-1784) (after a work of)

Item type:

print

Date of creation:

1762

Height:

50.6 cm  (19 15/16 in.)

Width:

35.5 cm  (14 in.)

(sheet dimensions)

Technique / Medium:

mezzotint engraving

Description

This full-length portrait of Lady Mary Coke shows her wearing an elegant gown and holding a theorbo as she stands beside a fortepiano in an interior colonnade.

People as subjects

Coke, Mary,‏ ‎Lady (1726-1811) (Musician portrait)

Iconclass

48C723
portrait of a musician
B1BB2(LADY MARY COKE)11
historical person (LADY MARY COKE) - BB - historical (LADY MARY COKE) portrayed alone
61B(+55)
historical persons (portraits and scenes from the life) (+ full length portrait)
48C7323
lute, and special forms of lute, e.g.: theorbo
48C7333
pianoforte

Instruments [MIMO Code] (notes)

Theorbo [3473]
Pianoforte [2299]

Musical works

illegible music notation

RIdIM images

Image URLs

image link 1

Notes

A slightly different version of this print (with minor differences in details and no text on lower border) is held by the Yale Center for British Art (RIdIM item 6257). Lady Mary Coke was active as a writer: her journals and correspondence were collected and published, and are available in print or on microfilm.

RIdIM record id

6258