Wash drawing depicting the bas-relief portrait in marble of Leonora d'Este at Strawberry Hill
Description
Title from lettering below image. Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record. Date based on date of William Bawtree's death. Mounted on page 14 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.
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Citation
G.P. Harding, Dia Helionora. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.