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Harriet Cheney (1771-1848) An album of fifty-eight portrait studies (vol. III) of figures from the circle of the Cheney family in Italy and elsewhere, the sitters including: Mrs Siddons; Miss F Sykes; Miss Ditmus; The Misses Carr 1 ; Miss Caroline Ellison, afterwards Mrs Martin; Mr Holden Webb; Mrs Thomas, afterwards Lady Lyndhurst; Mrs Wilkinson; Mrs Hutton Beverley; Son of Bassi, an Italian artist; Lady Sarah Garey Lyndhurst 2 (illustrated, a); Misses Ellison, Lady Stormont and Mrs Edwardes; Lady Juliana Lucy Annesley 3 ; Lady Webster; Miss Mary Elizabeth Fox, afterwards Lady Lilford 4 ; Miss Wilmina Maclean Clephane 5 , afterwards Mme. de Norman; Mrs Hadon in a hindoo [ sic ] costume (illustrated, b); Reginald, the son of Mrs Hadon, with his bearer (illustrated, c); Mr William Smith 6 , MP for Norwich; The Misses Pole-Carew 7 (illustrated, d); Mrs Mary Anne Cary Dalton 8 , afterwards Lady Thorold and Lady Ogle; Mrs Grant of Leafield and her daughter; Son of Lord Chetwynd; Mrs Astles [?], Rome; Misses Nicholson; Lord Compton 9 , Lord Spencer 1 1 and Lord William 1 0 ; Lady Margaret Compton 1 4 and Lady Marianne Compton 1 3 (illustrated, e); Lord Alwyne Compton 1 2 ; Captain Lothian Dickson; Misses Seymers [?]; Mr Lewin (illustrated, f); Mr James Morier 1 5 , Mrs Harriet Morier 1 5 and her son Greville Morier, 1836; Count Miniscalchi (2); Miss Charlotte Augusta Flower 1 6 , afterwards Duchess of Marlborough; Mrs Christie Falconer (2); Mrs Ruth Stewart Mackenzie; Rainald Knightley, 1840 (see lot 119); Miss Browne (2); Countess of Charlemont 1 7 ; Wilmina de Norman; Lady Margaret Compton; Mrs Milnes Gaskell 1 8 and her daughters, Cecil afterwards Mrs Palgrave and Mrs Winter; Rosa H Cure, October 1835; Miss Light; Miss Anna Clinton and Miss Harriet Clinton 1 9 , 1840; Miss Watts; and nine others; an unframed study of Venus; and an unframed portrait of two children with a King Charles' spaniel some inscribed (on the sheets), the majority inscribed (on the pages of the album) and numbered (lower right), some stamped and variously dated from 1835 to 1840 pencil and watercolour 14 x 12¼ in. (35.6 x 31.1 cm.); and smaller; the album 20¼ x 15 3/8 in. (51.4 x 39.1 cm.) overall (60)