[Madame de Prie] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Madame de Prie] [graphic].
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of Madame de Prie, half-length, directed to right, looking to front, index pointing upwards, a bird perched on her right hand
Description: Title from note in Horace Walpole's hand below image on mounting page.
Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose manuscript annotation is present.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
A version of this portait, done in crayons, was hung by Horace Walpole in the Red Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 70 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 25.7 x 21 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1797
Etchings England 1797
Material: engraving and etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Berthelot de Pléneuf, Agnès, marquise de Prie, 1698-1727,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Berthelot de Pléneuf, Agnès, marquise de Prie, 1698-1727
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1797
England > 1797
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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