The fair songster [graphic]
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16193544
Description
- Title
- The fair songster [graphic]
- Alternative Title
-
Mrs. Clive : from the picture at Strawberry Hill
Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... - Creator
- Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
- Contributor
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Van Haecken, Joseph, 1699-1749, attributed name.
Davison, Jeremiah, approximately 1695-1745, artist.
Bowles, Carington, 1724-1793, publisher. - Published / Created
- [not before 1762]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- Printed for C. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Abstract
-
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title engraved below image, on either side of verses.
Alternative title from later state; see Russell.
After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.
Date "1735" has been removed and title and publication line have been added to the plate; these changes constitute the second state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell.
Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue.
Four lines of verse engraved below image: Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ...
Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge and imprint statement has been erased. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: K,58.180.
Plate numbered "319" in lower left corner.
Mounted on page 220 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
- Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933. Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 36.3 x 27 cm
- Edition
- [State 4].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1762 - Material
- mezzotint ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subjects
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1762
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 12824204
- Object ID (OID)
- 16193544
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