File:MaryShelleyEaston.jpg

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Reginald Easton: Portrait miniature of Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851)  wikidata:Q136881989 reasonator:Q136881989
Artist
Reginald Easton (1807–1893)  wikidata:Q37792787
 
Description British painter, engraver and copper engraver
Date of birth/death 1807 Edit this at Wikidata 1893 Edit this at Wikidata
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q37792787
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Title
Portrait miniature of Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851)
label QS:Len,"Portrait miniature of Mary Wolstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851)"
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description
Reginald Easton painted this miniature portrait of Mary Shelley, on a flax coloured background. It incorporates a circlet backed by blue, the same seen in the Rothwell painting and a shawl.[2][3]
Depicted people Mary Shelley Edit this at Wikidata
Date 1857[2]
Medium watercolor paint on ivory Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 10.8 cm (4.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 8.6 cm (3.3 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+10.8U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+8.6U174728
institution QS:P195,Q82133
References https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/31131f69-44f1-45e3-bf02-af8b457f60d9/ Edit this at Wikidata
Source/Photographer Seymour, Miranda. Mary Shelley. London: Grove Press, 2000.
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Citations

  1. ↑ Sunstein, 214
  2. ↑ a b Seymour, p543
  3. ↑ Abinger Collection

References

  • Miranda Seymour, Mary Shelley, 2000, Grove Press, ISBN:0802139485
  • Emily W. Sunstein, Mary Shelley: Romance and Reality, ISBN:0801842182, illustrations pages 214,224
  • Mary Shelley Portrait archive copy at the Wayback Machine colour image of the framed miniature in the Abinger Collection

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