[Girl and cat] [art original].Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist[not after 1824]zxxWash 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 blanketTitle 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.