Catherine of Arragon [art original].

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Title: Catherine of Arragon [art original].
Alternative Title: Catherine of Aragon
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Catherine of Aragon; half length, facing slightly left; wearing a dress with a square neckline and a pendant in front; with several necklaces around her neck and some sort of headgear covering her hair
Description: Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably drawn after the miniature by Holbein that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 149 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 12.2 x 10 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Catherine, of Aragon, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, 1485-1536
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Catherine of Arragon. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.