Record ID:
377753
Accession number:
MA 1293.34
Published:
Southwell : T. Easter, 1861.
Credit:
Likely purchased by Pierpont Morgan before 1913.
Description:
1 photographic print : black and white with color added ; 98 x 62 mm
Notes:
Part of the Kaye Dowland Byron Collection, a large collection of letters, documents, engravings, photographs, and printed ephemera related to Lord Byron. Items in the collection are described in individual records; see MA 1293-1294 for details.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Morgan Library copy annotated by Pigot below photograph: "E.B. Pigot, aged 78 / born 26 Sept, 1783." Also with Pigot's note signed with initials on verso: "E.B. Pigot / aged 78 / Nov. 1861 / Southwell / I enter'd my / 79th year on the / 26th of Sept. 1861 / E.B.P."
Summary:
Full-length portrait of Elizabeth Bridget Pigot, childhood friend of Lord Byron, seated facing slightly left with an open book in her lap.
Provenance:
Kaye Dowland.
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