[Girl and cat] [art original].

Description

Title: [Girl and cat] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist.
Carriera, Rosalba, 1675-1757, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Wash drawing of a girl, bust-length, cradling a cat in her left arm; the girl has has short, curly hair; the cat is partially wrapped in a blanket
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably after a watercolor drawing by Horace Walpole, which was copied from Rosalba and hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 85 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 10.5 x 9 cm, on sheet 11.4 x 10 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Girls
Cats
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Girls
Cats
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Girl and Cat. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.