Anna Chamber, Countess Temple [art original].

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Title: Anna Chamber, Countess Temple [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740-1808, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Half-length portrait of Ann Countess Temple as an older woman, in profile facing left wearing simple yet luxurious dress using a lace strap and neck band and ruffles for decoration
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably after the drawing by Hugh Douglas Hamilton housed in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 62 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 13.1 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Chamber, Anna, Countess Temple, 1709-1777,
Subjects: Chamber, Anna, Countess Temple, 1709-1777
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Anna Chamber, Countess Temple. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.