id:			125028
accession number:	1946.463
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1946.463
updated:		2024-03-26 01:58:04.309000

The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq., 1755. Francis Cotes (British, 1726–1770). Pastel on laid paper lined with canvas; image: 60.7 x 45.7 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Edward B. Greene 1946.463

title:				The Right Honorable Lady Mary Radcliffe (1732-98), Wife of Francis Eyre, Esq.
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creation date:			1755
creation date earliest:		1755
creation date latest:		1755
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creditline:			Gift of Edward B. Greene
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culture:	England, 18th century
technique:	pastel on laid paper lined with canvas
department:	Drawings
collection:	DR - British
type:		Drawing
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catalogue raisonne: Johnson 57

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CREATORS

* Francis Cotes (British, 1726–1770)  - artist

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measurements: Image: 60.7 x 45.7 cm (23 7/8 x 18 in.)
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support materials:

	description:	laid paper lined with canvas
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	Inscribed, at lower left, in black chalk: Cotes pxt. / 1755
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art
	opening date:   2000-08-27T00:00:00
	<i>Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 27-October 17, 2000).

	title:		British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art 
	opening date:   2013-02-10T00:00:00
	<i>British Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art </i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 10-May 26, 2013).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	Colonel Herbert Hall Mulliner [1861-1924], Birmingham
	date: ?-1924
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	(sale, Christie's, London, July 18, 1924, no. 2)
	date: 1924
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	(P. & D. Colnaghi, London)
	date: after 1924-by 1937
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	(sale, Mensing & Fils, Amsterdam, April 27, 1937, no. 148)
	date: 1937
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	(A. Seligmann & Rey, Paris, sold to Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH)
	date: 1937
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	Edward B. Greene, Cleveland, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1937-1946
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	Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1946-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Francis, Henry S. "Three Eighteenth-Century Pastel Portraits." <em>Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art</em> 34, no. 9 (1947): 213-36.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 214
	url:		www.jstor.org/stable/25141409

	Johnson, Edward Mead. <em>Francis Cotes: Complete Edition with a Critical Essay and a Catalogue</em>. Oxford: Phaidon, 1976.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 58, no. 57
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	<em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries</em>. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 185, no. 75; Reproduced: p. 184
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	Chong, Alan. <em>European and American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 45
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	Jeffares, Neil. <em>Dictionary of Pastellists before 1800</em>. London: Unicorn Press, 2006.
	page number: 	Mentioned: p. 134
	url:		

	Jeffares, Neil. "COTES, Francis: Essay, Named Sitters A-H" <em>Dictionary of Patellists before 1800, Online Edition. </em>2008.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 11
	url:		www.pastellists.com

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