Engraver
James Hopwood the Younger
, English, 1795-after 1825
After
Rose Emma Drummond
Title
Portrait of Mary Tighe (1772-1810), PoetDate1818
MediumStipple
Dimensions
Sheet: 29 x 22.2 cm
Plate: 18.7 x 12 cm
Credit LinePurchased, 1898
Object numberNGI.11006
DescriptionPlate for ‘The Ladies Monthly Museum’, 1 February 1818, after a watercolour miniature by Emma Drummond. Mary Tighe’s (née Blachford), best known poem was ‘Psyche’, and her work was admired by Thomas Moore. Aged 21 she married her first cousin Henry Tighe of Rossana in County Wicklow.Inscriptionlower centre (under image, lettered): Painted by Miss Emma Drummond / Engraved by J Hopwood Junr / Mrs Henry Tighe / Pub. Feb.y 1,1818 by Dean and Mundy, Threadneedle Street.