Mrs. Beale & her son Charles [graphic]

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Description

Title
Mrs. Beale & her son Charles [graphic]
Alternative Title
Mrs. Beale and her son Charles
Creator
Chambars, Thomas, approximately 1724-1789, printmaker
Contributor
Beale, Mary, 1633-1699, attributed name.
Beale, Charles, 1660-1714, artist.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created
[approximately 1762]
Publication Place
Twickenham
Publisher
Strawberry Hill Press
Abstract

"Portrait of Mary Beale, with another of her son Charles; bust length to right; in oval on stone pedastal, portrait of Charles in oval to left; after C. Beale (?)."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Original drawings were formerly attributed to Mary Beale and are currently attributed tentatively to Charles Beale. See British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,6.157.
Publication information from that of the volume in which the print appeared.
Plate from: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England ... [Twickenham] : Strawberry Hill, 1762-1771 [that is 1780].
Probably engraved after the watercolor drawings that were kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
"Vol. III, p. 67"--Above image in upper right.
Mounted on page 62 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
Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent
1 print : sheet 17.3 x 13.3 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Group portraits
Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1762
Engravings England London 1762
Material
etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Beale, Mary, 1633-1699,
Beale, Charles, 1660-1714,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Beale, Mary, 1633-1699
Beale, Charles, 1660-1714
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1762
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
12701609
Object ID (OID)
16193003

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