[A Wedgwood blue jasper dip portrait medallion of Catherine (Shorter) Lady Walpole] [art original].

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Title: [A Wedgwood blue jasper dip portrait medallion of Catherine (Shorter) Lady Walpole] [art original].
Creator: Vanderbank, John, 1694-1739, artist
Contributor: Wedgwood, Josiah, 1730-1795.
Josiah Wedgwood & Sons.
Published / Created: [ca. 1774]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title from dealer's catalog.
Signed on collar "G.D.F.R."
Possibly after John Vanderbank.
Formerly erroneously associated in old library records with Location: Green Closet, in the 1774 and 1784 editions of Description of the villa of Horace Walpole, youngest son of Sir Robert Walpole Earl of Orford at Strawberry-Hill: Sir Robert Walpole, and Catherine Lady Walpole; heads carved in ivory.
Formerly erroneously associated in old library records the text from the 1842 sale catalogue, Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: A carving in ivory, Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole, and ditto of his wife, Catherine Shorter (Horace Walpole; 1842, May 14, Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 18, Lot 79, bought by the Earl of Orford, £8.8.0.
Provenance: Unrecorded provenance.
Extent: 1 item : visible oval image 11.5 x 9 cm, framed to 18 x 13 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Jasperware
Cameos
Portraits British 18th century
Bas-relief (sculpture technique)
Material: porcelain portrait in relief ; and Blue Wedgwood jasperware.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737,
Subjects: Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737
British > 18th century

Access: Public
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Citation: A Wedgwood Blue Jasper Dip Portrait Medallion of Catherine (Shorter) Lady Walpole. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.