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Thomas Gainsborough · 1777

The Honourable Mrs Graham

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Full-length portrait of Mary Graham in a silver-white satin gown over a crimson quilted petticoat and a plumed hat, leaning on the base of a great stone column with an ostrich feather in her hand, dark trees and a stormy sky behind. Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh.

Up to 12 × 18.5 in · portrait

Size

Larger sizes are unavailable for this painting because the source scan's resolution wouldn't print at gallery quality.

Format & finish

Archival cotton canvas stretched over a wooden frame. Ready to hang as-is. No external frame.

Scale next to a 5'10" person

12″18.5″

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Materials & quality

›Canvas & inks

Giclée-printed on archival cotton canvas with fade-resistant pigment inks, hand-stretched over wooden bars. Gallery-wrapped — ready to hang with no extra frame needed.

›Floater frame

Hand-finished solid wood floater frame in five finishes. The canvas sits inside with a clean shadow gap — the way galleries hang contemporary canvas.

›Posters

Premium archival paper — 200 gsm soft matte or 230 gsm vibrant glossy. Ships flat or rolled, ready for your own frame.

›Faithful to the source

Printed from the highest-resolution museum and archive scans available. Each painting's maximum size is capped at what its source scan can support at gallery quality.

The story of The Honourable Mrs Graham

Mary Cathcart married Thomas Graham, later Lord Lynedoch, in December 1774, and Gainsborough's full-length portrait of her was shown at the Royal Academy exhibition of 1777, where her looks caused a stir. She died of tuberculosis in 1792; her grieving husband put the portrait into storage, and it stayed out of sight for 65 years until it was exhibited in Manchester in 1857. Two years later his cousin and heir Robert Graham bequeathed it to the newly opened Scottish National Gallery.

Adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Thomas Gainsborough

Thomas Gainsborough was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes.

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Biography adapted from Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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