[View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's villa] [art original].

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Title: [View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's villa] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's house, known as Little Marble Hill, in Twickenham. The white house stands in the background on the right, partially obscured by a tree; a white picket fence runs along the side of the house; a large tree stands in the center foreground, next to the river; at left is the Thames with a man fishing from a boat
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Possibly drawn after a drawing by Samuel Lysons that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Red Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 223 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 16.3 x 23 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Views
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Houses
Subjects: Beauclerk, Diana, Lady, 1734-1808 > Homes and haunts
Houses
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, View of Lady Diana Beauclerk's Villa. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.