Miniatures: G0069

Title

Elizabeth Billington

Technique

Watercolour

Subject

Billington, Elizabeth

Artist

Pope, Alexander

Dimensions

Height: 6.4cm
Width: 4.8cm

Other materials

Watercolour on ivory; oval

Provenance

Charles Mathews

Other number

Mathews 319 (artist unknown)
RW 427M (Elizabeth Farren)
CKA 427M (Unknown Lady and artist unknown)

Exhibition history

1833 London, Queen's Bazaar, Oxford Street, "Mr Mathews's Gallery of Theatrical Portraits" (319)

Engraving history

M. Greatbach, after a drawing by George Perfect Harding pub. Richard Bentley 1838, stipple and line 6.7x4.5, inscr: "From a Miniature by Pope in the possession of the Garrick Club"

The sitter wears a crimson velvet dress trimmed with gold. The drapery is green.