Think and Speak

By George Henry Harlow (1787-1819), via Wikimedia Commons. Licence: Public domain. Source

About this picture …

‘Kitty Stephens, later Countess of Essex, playing the harp-lute’, by George Henry Harlow (1787-1819). Kitty Stephens (1794-1882) was an actress and operatic soprano on the London stage, who in 1838 married George Capel-Coningsby, 5th Earl of Essex, who was in his eighties. Here she holds a harp lute, invented in 1798 by Edward Light, a London instrument-maker.

Lute

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