Portrait of the Duchess of Buccleugh and Ornament, nos. CCCCXXXII, 433, 435, plate 66 from "Designs for Various Ornaments"

Michelangelo Pergolesi|Elizabeth Scott, Duchess of Buccleugh

August 30, 1792 · Etching · Drawings and Prints

This design for a portrait surrounded by ornament is numbered CCCCXXXII, and 433, 435. The print comes from a group created and published serially in London by Pergolesi between 1777 and 1792. There is no title page, but a prospectus of ca. 1786 described the group as: "A great variety of original designs of vases, figures, medallions, friezes, pilasters, panels and other ornaments, in the Etruscan and grotesque style." The complete set contains 67 plates numbered 1-66 (two are numbered 56), with designs within the plates irregularly numbered 1-435 (in Roman numerals at first, with Arabic numbers later introduced). In 1801, after Pergolesi's death, four additional plates of designs were published by a bookseller Dulouchamp (or Dulonchamp).

Artist

Michelangelo Pergolesi|Elizabeth Scott, Duchess of Buccleugh

Date

August 30, 1792

Medium

Etching

Department

Drawings and Prints

Credit line

Bequest of Herbert Mitchell, 2008