Madame de Prie from an original at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

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Title: Madame de Prie from an original at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
Creator: Taylor, C. (Charles), 1756-1823, printmaker
Contributor: Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, artist.
Coxe, William, 1747-1828, publisher.
Published / Created: [1 February 1802]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Publish'd Feby. 1, 1802, by the Revd. W. Cox, London
Abstract: "Portrait of Madame de Prie, half-length, directed to left, looking to front, index pointing upwards, a bird perched on her left hand."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
After a drawing in crayon that hung in the Red Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with partial loss of title and complete loss of imprint from bottom edge. Missing text supplied from impression in the British Museum.
Mounted on page 75 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 14.4 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1802
Material: stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Berthelot de Pléneuf, Agnès, marquise de Prie, 1698-1727,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Berthelot de Pléneuf, Agnès, marquise de Prie, 1698-1727
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1802
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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