Benedict 14th [art original].

Description

Title: Benedict 14th [art original].
Alternative Title: Benedict XIV
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Wash drawing depicting Pope Benedict XIV, in profile to the left, wearing clerical dress and cap
Description: Title from pencil annotation below image in Horace Walpole's hand.
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date.
Possibly drawn from a wax model kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 58 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Extent: 1 drawing : circular image 10 cm, on sheet 12.4 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 18th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Benedict 14th. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.