19th Century British and Continental Paintings

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拍品 5
  • 5

George Beare Portrait of Mrs Godwin

招標截止

描述

  • oil on canvas
Half length, wearing a white bonnet and a shawl, holding a book

拍品資料及來源

Mary Godwin wrote the first great feminist document, A Vindication of the Rights of Women, published in 1792. She died within days of giving birth to her daighter, Mary, who went on to write Frankenstein.