Lady Jane Gray [art original].

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Title: Lady Jane Gray [art original].
Alternative Title: Lady Jane Grey
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing, half length, facing forward; wearing a long pearl necklace, a frilled collar, and a dress with fur accents
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 copy of the portrait made by Vertue that was in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 113 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 11.3 x 10 cm, on sheet 12.8 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): Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Grey, Jane, Lady, 1537-1554
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Lady Jane Gray. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.