Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic]

Description

Title: Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic]
Creator: Pariset, D. P., active 1740-1783, printmaker
Contributor: Falconet, Peter, 1741-1791, artist.
Thane, John, 1748-1818, publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1781 and 1798?]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by the Proprietor J. Thane, Rupert Street, Hay Market
Description: Title etched in open letters below image.
Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the RA. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142).
Date of publication based on known dates of business at the Rupert Street address.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Cf. Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 3, page 377.
Mounted on page 3 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of Horace Walpole's: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.1 x 13.2 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1781
Material: stipple engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
England > London > 1781
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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