Lady Irvin from a picture in Mr. Harding ['s collection?]. [art original]

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Title: Lady Irvin from a picture in Mr. Harding ['s collection?]. [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1806]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Portrait drawing of a woman; three-quarters length, turned slightly left, her left hand resting on a book; wearing a formal white dress with a small blue bow; hair worn up with pearls; additional books on shelves in the background
Description: Title from pencil annotation on verso, the end of which is trimmed away; "Lady Irvin" also inscribed in ink on page in album where drawing was probably once mounted.
Questionable attribution to G.P. Harding from local card catalog record.
Place and date of production based on the country of residence and death date of Richard Bull, who owned and likely assembled the album in which this drawing was found.
Formerly laid in at page 77 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 : sheet 19.6 x 16 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding. Lady Irvin. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.