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Engraver, Irish, 1721/22-1775
Joshua Reynolds , English, 1723-1792
Title
Portrait of Harriet Powell (d.1779), Actress and Singer
Date1771
MediumMezzotint
Dimensions
Plate: 50.5 x 35.5 cm
Sheet: 54 x 39 cm
Credit LinePurchased, 1887
Object numberNGI.11063
DescriptionMezzotint portrait after a painting by Reynolds of Harriet Powell (d.1779), actress and singer, later Countess of Seaforth. Here she is depicted as Leonara in ‘The Padlock’, a two-act 'afterpiece' opera by Charles Dibdin with text by Isaac Bickerstaffe.
Inscriptionlower centre (below image, lettered): [with lines of verse] / Sir Joshua Reynolds pinx / R. Sayer Excudit / Richd. Houston fecit / London, Printed as the Act directs, for Robt. Sayer, Printseller, No 53 Fleet Street.