Miss Berry [art original]

Description

Title: Miss Berry [art original]
Creator: Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Contributor: Adlard, Henry.
Mee, Anne, 1775?-1851, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1884 and 1890]
Publication Place: New York?
Abstract: Portrait of Mary Berry; bust length, looking to the right; wearing her hair loose and curly
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Statement of responsibility written in brown ink in lower left corner of sheet.
Probably copied from a print by Henry Adlard after a miniature by Anne Mee. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1939,0513.140.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Date from decorated title page indicating that the volumes of this copy were "... privately illustrated 1884-1890".
Mounted on page 160 in volume 11 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance: Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 10.5 x 9 cm, on sheet 21.7 x 16 cm, window mounted to 38.5 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Pen works American 19th century
Ink drawings American 19th century
Material: pen and ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Berry, Mary, 1763-1852,
Subjects: Berry, Mary, 1763-1852
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: David Edward Cronin, Miss Berry. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.