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The image is a portrait of a woman's upper body in profile, facing left. She is seated with prominent facial features including a nose and lips, and curly hair partially visible under an elaborate head covering. She wears a pleated collar and the background is a dark circle against a light backdrop. The text "Drawn & engd. by St. Memin Philadel." is curved around the circle, and below the portrait, the name "Dame Mrs Ludlow" is handwritten.
National Gallery of Art · Print
Arabella Duncan Ludlow
Charles B. J. Févret de Saint-Mémin
- Date
- 1798
- Medium
- mezzotint and engraving in black on wove paper mounted to brown wove paper
- Dimensions
- image (irregular): 5.56 × 5.56 cm (2 3/16 × 2 3/16 in.) sheet (trimmed to plate): 6.83 × 6.19 cm (2 11/16 × 2 7/16 in.)
- Classification
- Accession number
- 2015.19.1584.52.3
- Credit line
- Corcoran Collection (Gift of William Wilson Corcoran)
- Time span
- 1776 to 1800
- Department
- CG-W
Portfolio and series
- Series
- Saint-Mémin Collection of Portraits
Subjects and terms
- portrait
- American
- Woman
- engraving
- mezzotint
- Profile
Provenance
the artist, Dijon, France; Léon Victor Raoul Leclerc, Vicomte de Juigné (the artist's nephew), Dijon, France, 1852; (Henry Stevens, London, England, c. 1859); William W. Corcoran, Washington, DC, c. 1874; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1875; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art
Inscription
lower center in plate: Drawn & engrd. by St. Memin Philadela.; lower center mount in black ink by unknown hand: Danl. / Mrs. Ludlow.
NGA object ID 215309. Collection metadata is reproduced under CC0. This work is included because its NGA published-image record is marked open access; visitors should recheck the source record before substantial reuse.