Sir Nicholas Carew [art original].

Description

Title: Sir Nicholas Carew [art original].
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 drawing of Sir Nicholas Carew; bust length, turned slightly left; bearded; wearing a dark robe over an ornate shirt with a high, white collar; a rounded, dark hat covers his hair
Description: Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Probably drawn from the picture, copied by Milbourn from the original by Holbein, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 184 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 14.3 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): Carew, Nicholas, Sir, approximately 1490-1539,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Carew, Nicholas, Sir, approximately 1490-1539
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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Citation: G.P. Harding, Sir Nicholas Carew. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.