[Mary, Duchess of Buckingham] [art original].

Description

Title: [Mary, Duchess of Buckingham] [art original].
Contributor: Cooper, Samuel, 1609-1672, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing of Mary Fairfax Villiers, wife of George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham; bust-length, shoulders slightly to right, head facing forward and glancing towards the viewer; wearing a gown with a single jewel or pearl hanging from the center of its low neckline; hair in curls
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
After a miniature by Cooper that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 84 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 6.6 x 5 cm, on sheet 8.4 x 7 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 19th century
Material: pen and ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Buckingham, Mary Villiers, Duchess of, 1638-1704,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Buckingham, Mary Villiers, Duchess of, 1638-1704
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Unidentified Artist, Mary, Duchess of Buckingham. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.