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Coster, Mrs., Mrs. Coster & child / A.E. Chalon ; W.H. Mote.
Persistent link:
https://digital.librarycompany.org/islandora/object/digitool%3A64110
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Details
Contributor
Chalon, Alfred Edward, 1780-1860, artist.
Mote, William Henry, engraver.
Title
Coster, Mrs.
Alternate title
Mrs. Coster & child / A.E. Chalon ; W.H. Mote.
Publisher
[Hartford? : s.n.]
Date
[1847?]
Physical description
1 print : engraving ; 18.7 x 11.4 cm.
Description
Full-length portrait of Mrs. Coster [possibly Stephanie de Pau Coster, wife of Washington Coster] seated next to child [possibly her daughter Frances Stephanie Coster]. Cf. oil painting at MCNY? (not seen). Mrs. Coster has an open book on her lap, on which the child's left hand rests.
Notes
In The American book of beauty, or, Token of friendship (Hartford, 1847?), plate following p. [72].
Another portrait appears in: The Family circle and parlor annual, 1848 (New York, 1847), plate preceding p. [117].
Original sitter identified as the Hon. Lalagé Letitia Caroline Bankes (née Vivian), the wife of Henry Hyde Nugent Bankes; and the daughter of 1st Baron Vivian. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London. http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw199868/Hon-Lalag-Letitia-Caroline-Bankes-ne-Vivian?LinkID=mp94766&role=sit&rNo=0
Genre
Portrait prints -- 1840-1849.
Engravings -- 1840-1849.
Subject
Coster, Stephanie de Pau -- Portraits.
Coster, Frances Stephanie -- Portraits.
Mothers.
Women.
Fictitious characters.
Bankes, Lalagé Letitia Caroline, 1834-1875 -- Portraits.
In Collections
Portraits of American Women
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