Portrait artist Thomas Frye’s professional interests carried him from Ireland to London, where he also developed business connections with the state of Virginia in pursuit of kaolin clay sources for porcelain manufacturing. His work at the Bow Porcelain Factory is noteworthy, but his originality within the medium of mezzotint prints is what most consider to be his legacy. This softly shaded depiction of an unidentified woman, possibly a London actor, is one of a series of Frye’s portraits that Winterthur acquired as representative of Irish mezzotints in circulation in colonial America. The artist titled the series “Ladies, very elegantly attired in fashion, and in the most agreeable attitudes.”