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Charles Turner British
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Portrait of Lord Henry and Lady Charlotte Spencer, children of George, Duke of Marlborough (late eighteenth century); the young girl is dressed as a fortune teller and is reading the palm of her brother, who is dressed as a nobleman.
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Title: The Fortune Teller
Artist:
Charles Turner (British, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 1774–1857 London)
Date: 1823
Medium: Mezzotint; second state of two
Dimensions:
Image: 8 7/8 × 8 7/8 in. (22.5 × 22.5 cm)
Plate: 10 5/8 × 8 15/16 in. (27 × 22.7 cm)
Sheet: 10 15/16 × 9 3/8 in. (27.8 × 23.8 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Georgiana W. Sargent, in memory of John Osborne Sargent, 1924
Accession Number: 24.63.103
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