Lady Dorothy referred to this portrait of her in her memoirs (Leaves from the Notebooks of Lady Dorothy Nevill, op.cit.) as 'Though somewhat artificial in pose...not at all unpleasing, being far more graceful than any modern effort of the same sort'. Mote's engraving of this picture was used as the frontispiece for The Keepsake of 1851, a copy of which is included in this lot. In the same volumne appears a poem, in honour of the portrait, by Charles Howard: it ends:
For bitter, bitter, is the lone heart-weeping
Of eager wooer who must woo in vain!
For weary, weary, is the noon-day creeping
Of sunny hours whose brightness shows but pain! -
And (even when pictured) who may look upon you,
Nor wish that he had won you?