[Seal of the head of Sir Robert Walpole] [art original].

Description

Title: [Seal of the head of Sir Robert Walpole] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Natter, Lorenz, 1705-1763, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Wash drawing depicting a portrait head, in profile to the left, of Sir Robert Walpole. Likely drawn from the seal of white cornelian by Natter that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 159 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 5.2 x 5 cm, on sheet 7.8 x 7 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Seals (Insignia)
Subjects: Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Seals (Insignia)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Seal of the Head of Sir Robert Walpole. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.