Fisher, Bishop of Rochester [art original].

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Title: Fisher, Bishop of Rochester [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist.
Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, bust length, facing slightly left; wearing a hat and clerical clothing. Probably after the drawing by Müntz that was copied from an original by Holbein, from the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
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 : oval image 10.1 x 9 cm, on sheet 11.5 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Fisher, John, Saint, 1469-1535
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Fisher, Bishop of Rochester. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.