George Simon Harcourt, Vicount Nuneham [graphic]

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Title: George Simon Harcourt, Vicount Nuneham [graphic]
Alternative Title: George Simon Harcourt, Viscount Nuneham
Creator: Green, Valentine, 1739-1813, printmaker, publisher
Contributor: Gardner, Daniel, 1750-1805, artist.
Published / Created: June 25th, 1772.
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd by V. Green, Salisbury Street, Strand
Abstract: "Portrait, bust, in a mock oval frame, in profile to right, wearing a lacy cravat and a wig with a curling queue; after Gardner."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title engraved below image.
State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark on lower edge with loss of imprint. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 40 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 32.0 x 23.2 cm
Edition: [State 2].
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1772
Material: mezzotint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809,
Subjects: Harcourt, George Simon Harcourt, Earl, 1736-1809
England > London > 1772
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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