Lord Barrington [art original]

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Title: Lord Barrington [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [1802]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing of John Shute Barrington; half length, with head completed in detail and the rest in outline; wearing a long curled wig
Description: Title inscribed in ink on verso.
Signed by the artist in watercolor in lower left corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above.
Dated by the artist below signature.
"Lord Barrington, fm. an original picture"--Below image, written on mount in pencil in a contemporary hand.
Formerly page 65 in an album containing 402 pages, bound in red morocco leather with single gilt ruled line; spine stamped in gold "Drawings." Now disassembled and matted separately: Bull, R. Scrapbook of drawings. [England], [not after 1806].
Matted to 49 x 37 cm.
Original case shelved separately.
Provenance: Merian drawings purchased by Richard Bull from the collection of Doctor Fothergill (1712-1780). Album purchased by W.S. Lewis at the Julia Swinburne and Lady Jane Ashburnham sale, Sotheby's, lot 426, 20 July 1954.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 11.6 x 10 cm, on sheet 13.7 x 13 cm, mounted to 28 x 22 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Portrait drawings
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Barrington, John Shute Barrington, Viscount, 1678-1734
Subjects: Barrington, John Shute Barrington, Viscount, 1678-1734 > Portraits
British > 19th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Lord Barrington. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.