Portrait of Mary Wortley Montagu
Date
1899
Sitter
Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - 1762, English) , Writer
Creator - Organisation
Swan Electric Engraving Company, Engraver
After
Christian Friedrich Zincke (1684 - 1767, German) , Painter
Object type
Library reference
26812
Material
Technique
Subject
Description
Half-length standing portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu within a circular frame. She is shown in Turkish dress with a headdress, necklace and an ornamental dagger in a belt across her waist. Her head is turned towards her left with her hands by her hips.
Inscribed below: ‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. / From a miniature in the possession of the Earl of Wharncliffe.’ ‘Swan Electric Engraving Co.’
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English medical pioneer and writer, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. She introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain by having the first procedure on an English citizen performed on her then four-year-old son, Edward Wortley Montagu FRS (1713-1776).
Inscribed below: ‘Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. / From a miniature in the possession of the Earl of Wharncliffe.’ ‘Swan Electric Engraving Co.’
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762), English medical pioneer and writer, was not a Fellow of the Royal Society. She introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain by having the first procedure on an English citizen performed on her then four-year-old son, Edward Wortley Montagu FRS (1713-1776).
Object history
Plate to Anglo-Saxon Review: a Quarterly Miscellany, June 1899, edited by Lady Randolph Spencer Churchill.