Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey [art original].

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Title: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing, bust length, facing left; wearing a feathered(?) hat positioned on the right side of his head
Description: Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably after the drawing by Vertue, copied from an original by Holbein, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 112 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 : sheet 13.9 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Surrey, Henry Howard, Earl of, 1517?-1547
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.