Author: Pierre Lombard (1612/13-1681/82) after Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
Title: [Antique portrait print, engraving] ELIZABETH CASTLEHAVEN COMITISSA (Elizabeth, Countess of Castlehaven), published c. 1660.
Description: Portrait of Elizabeth, Countess of Castlehaven, three-quarter length, facing front, her right hand on the chest, wearing a silk dress, within an ornate frame. From a set of twelve portraits.Lettered below: 'ELIZABETH CASTLEHAVEN COMITISSA' Signed: 'Antonius Van Dyck Eques pinxit. / P. Lombart sculpsit londini avec Privileige du Roy / et ex parisis.'1st wife of Mervyn Touchet, 2nd Earl of Castlehaven, whom she married before 1612. Engraving on paper, with some margin; plate mark: 352 x 260 mm total: 387 x 293 mm; state II/3; a hole on the bottom, near letter L of 'Castlehaven', otherwise in very good condition. New Hollstein 255.

Keywords: Early printings|Portraits|United Kingdom|Women