Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford [art original].

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Title: Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Lawrence, Thomas, 1769-1830, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Bust-length portrait of Horace Walpole, head turned in three-quarter profile to look right, wearing a short wig curled at the sides; with border
Description: Title written in ink below image, within border.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
After a drawing by Sir Thomas Lawrence.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
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: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 19 x 16 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.