Benedict 14th [art original].Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist[not after 1797]engWash drawing depicting Pope Benedict XIV, in profile to the left, wearing clerical dress and capTitle 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.