[Mary Kirk Vernon] [art original].

Description

Title: [Mary Kirk Vernon] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing of Mary Kirk, wife of Sir Richard Vernon; bust-length, head and shoulders slightly to left, head turned to right and glancing towards the viewer; wearing a low-necked gown with a rope of pearls hanging from the shoulder and a veil over her hair
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Possibly after the picture of Mary Kirk that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Red Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 74 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 : oval image 6.5 x 5 cm, on sheet 8 x 7 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Mary Kirk Vernon. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.