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Maria Foote, afterwards Countess of Harrington

Item

Subject

A digital image of an engraving of Maria Foote as the Countess of Harrington, taken from the 1908 book _Devonshire Characters and Strange Events_.

Description

A digital image taken from a book (previously taken from an engraving) featuring the Countess of Harrington. Miss Maria Foote was a stage actress and musician who became the Countess of Harrington in 1831. Lyon saw her perform jut five years before her marriage in the role of Virginia opposite William Macready at the Drury Lane Theatre.

Creator

Unknown, from an engraved portrait in the collection of A. M. Broadley, Esq.

Source

Wikimedia Commons

Publisher

Wikimedia Commons, 8 September 2010, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Illustration_facing_page_22,_Devonshire_Characters_and_Strange_Events.png

Date

1908

Contributor

Sarah Wyer

Rights

Public Domain

Relation

N/A

Format

.png

Language

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Type

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Identifier

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Coverage

N/A

Citation

Unknown, from an engraved portrait in the collection of A. M. Broadley, Esq., “Maria Foote, afterwards Countess of Harrington,” The Lyon Archive, accessed May 3, 2024, https://lyon.eastendarchives.net/items/show/110.