[Mercury with lamb and rooster] [art original].

Description

Title: [Mercury with lamb and rooster] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of the Roman god Mercury, standing full-length, facing viewer; with wings on his ankles and holding the caduceus in his left hand and a flask(?) in his right hand; a lamb and a rooster stand by his feet; in an oval. Based on the intaglia image in ameythyst, "given to Mr. Walpole by General Conway", on view 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 163 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 5.3 x 5 cm, on sheet 10.3 x 9 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Mercury (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Roosters
Sheep
Jewelry
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
Mercury (Roman deity)
Roosters
Sheep
Jewelry
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Mercury With Lamb and Rooster. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.