Margaret Woffington [graphic] / James Ferguson.
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Title
Margaret Woffington [graphic] / James Ferguson.
Created/published
Mid-eighteenth century.
Description
1 drawing : pencil and india ink on vellum, oval ; 2 3/16 x 1 3/4 in. (5.5 x 5 cm) (sight)
Associated name
Ferguson, James, 1710-1776, artist.
Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752-1821, former owner.
Wellesley, Francis, former owner.
Henniker, John Henniker-Major, Baron, 1752-1821, former owner.
Wellesley, Francis, former owner.
Material base
skin vellum
Note
Title from Pressly.
Publications about material
Janet Camden Lucey, "Lovely Peggy," Watford, Herts., 1952, p. 257 (mentions photograph in British Museum of Ferguson miniature, presumably a photo of the Folger picture)
Provenance
Provenance: Collection of Lord Henniker; collection of Francis Wellesley, no. 23 in his privately printed catalogue.
Source of acquisition
Wellesley sale, Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, Auctioneers, Wellington St., Strand, London [1902]; 34-35 New Bond St., London [1928], 28 June-2 July (29) 1920, lot 327, £4.5.0, Quaritch acting as agent.
Exhibited
Exhibited: 'As imagination bodies forth...' [paintings] Oct. 28, 1993-Feb. 15, 1994.
Cited/described in
Pressly, W.L. Paintings in the Folger Shakespeare Library, 138
Place of creation/publication
Great Britain -- England.
Item Details
Call number
FPm16 (realia) (B7a)
Folger-specific note
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