ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN RAPHAEL SMITH (1752-1812). Portrait of a ...

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£850

ATTRIBUTED TO JOHN RAPHAEL SMITH (1752-1812). Portrait of a Lady, said to be Hannah More, quarter-length, wearing a white mob cap and brown dress, pastel, oval, 15 x 12 1/2in, sold with a set of eleven volumes of Hannah More's works; together with a volume of 'Letters to a Friend, 1819' (a/f) by James Harrington Evans, the frontispiece with ink inscription, to Mrs Hannah More from the author (J.H.Evans); together with a volume (binding broken) titled 'Memoirs of the Life of Mrs Hannah More'; and an engraving said to depict Hannah More, (the mount bears a label which appears to by inscribed by Hannah More). Also included in the lot is a pen and ink 'Plan of the Parish of Croscombe in the County of Somerset' by B. Tuthill, Surveyor, 1809; together with a book titled the 'Village of Croscombe' by the Rev. John East, printed by J. Chillcott, Bristol, 1831. Hannah More (1745-1833) was a noted literary figure, educator and anti-slavery figure, and one of the most influential female philanthropists of her day