Unknown Artist, after John Opie
Mary Wollstonecraft
£6,250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 2 February 2022 at 10:00 GMT
Description
With the initials "N.B.S.”(?) inside shamrock motif. Oil on canvas, 63 x 76cm
Footnote
Note: A later copy of John Opie’s painting of the renowned author and feminist, Mary Wollstonecraft, the original painted in 1797. The work depicts Wollstonecraft pregnant with her second daughter, Mary (later Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley), author of ‘Frankenstein; or the Modern Prometheus”.
Provenance: From the Library of the Late William St Clair