[Germanicus Caesar] [art original].

Description

Title: [Germanicus Caesar] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait head, in profile to the left, of Germanicus Caesar. After a intaglia portrait on cornelian kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
The name of the workman who created the intaglia, "Epitu" for Epitynchanes, is written in Greek letters to the lower left of the portrait head.
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 5.2 x 5 cm, on sheet 7.4 x 7 cm
Language: Greek, Modern (1453- )

Genre: Portraits
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D.,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Germanicus Caesar, 15 B.C.-19 A.D.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Germanicus Caesar. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.