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The finest quality print from a series of portraits depicting the female aristocracy of the court of Queen Victoria.
Print Specifics:
- Type of print: Intaglio, steel line & stipple engraving
- Year of printing: not indicated in the print. Actual: 1840
- Publisher: The Proprietors, Southampton Place, Euston Square.
- Condition: 1 (1.
Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Printed on thin Japanese
paper and mounted completely and cleanly on heavier stock paper (slightly age toned).
- Dimensions: 10 x 13.5
inches (25 x 35 cm), including blank margins around the image.
- Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin)
- Reverse side: Blank
- Note: 1. Green 'border' around the
print in the photo is a contrasting background on which the print was
photographed. 2. The detail of the print is much sharper than the photo of the print.
Genealogy Info:
- FRANCES,
COUNTESS OF DARTMOUTH, is the second daughter of George, the fifth
Viscount Barrington in the Irish peerage, by Elizabeth, daughter of
Robert Adair, Esq.
- Her Ladyship is married to William, the fourth Earl
of Dartmouth. The ancestors of the Earl of Dartmouth were of Italian
origin, the name being De la Lega, subsequently Anglicised to Legg.
They came to this country at a very early period; Hugh de Lega was one
of the sheriffs of Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire in the reign of Henry II., and William de la Lega was sheriff of Herefordshire at the same period.
Some very remarkable instances of longevity have occurred in the Legge
family. William, who accompanied Sir Walter Raleigh to the Indies in
1584, had six sons and seven daughters; two of the daughters, Elizabeth
and Margaret, lived to the respective ages of 105 years; Anne, another
daughter, died at 112 years; and their brother, Colonel John Legge, at
the age of 100 years.
William Legge was a devoted adherent. of Charles I., whom he followed
with untiring zeal through all his fortunes. He was a man of great
personal bravery, and distinguished himself so highly at the battle of
Newbury on the 20th of September, 1643, that on the following evening
the King presented him with the hanger which he had himself worn, and
offered to knight him with it; but the honour was respectfully
declined. IIis life during the Civil Wars was full of strange
vicissitudes and narrow escapes, almost equalling those of his royal
master, whose confidence, with the exception of one brief interval, he
enjoyed to the last. He was several times taken prisoner by the
Republican party, and was once charged with high treason, but was saved
through the interposition of the Speaker, William Lenthal, whose
kindness he repaid by being mainly instrumental in procuring his pardon
after the Restoration.
- This gallant and loyal gentleman, whose devotion to his monarch was of the most disinterested character, died in October 1672.
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