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Ada Jane Arbuthnot, after Cosway
Susan Coutts and Fanny Coutts: one in a white dress with pearls in her powdered hair; another in a blue dress and wearing a pearl necklace
in a gilt-metal frame with chased and engraved border, the reverse engraved 'Susan Coutts (Countess of Guilford) Fanny Coutts (Marchioness of Bute) after Cosway. By Ada Jane Arbuthnot', in a fitted leather case
rectangular, 3½ x 2¾ in. (89 x 70 mm.); and Mrs. George Arbuthnot (neé Brisca), facing left in white dress and wearing a bandeau in her powdered curling hair (Ada Jane Arbuthnot) mounted on the lid of a gilt-metal snuff box, engraved oval, 2¾ in. (70 mm.) high; and nudes on the banks of a river, mounted on the lid of an ivory bonbonnière (cracked)
2¼ in. (58 mm.) diam. (3)
Susan Coutts and Fanny Coutts: one in a white dress with pearls in her powdered hair; another in a blue dress and wearing a pearl necklace
in a gilt-metal frame with chased and engraved border, the reverse engraved 'Susan Coutts (Countess of Guilford) Fanny Coutts (Marchioness of Bute) after Cosway. By Ada Jane Arbuthnot', in a fitted leather case
rectangular, 3½ x 2¾ in. (89 x 70 mm.); and Mrs. George Arbuthnot (neé Brisca), facing left in white dress and wearing a bandeau in her powdered curling hair (Ada Jane Arbuthnot) mounted on the lid of a gilt-metal snuff box, engraved oval, 2¾ in. (70 mm.) high; and nudes on the banks of a river, mounted on the lid of an ivory bonbonnière (cracked)
2¼ in. (58 mm.) diam. (3)
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