[Armor in a niche] [art original].

Description

Title: [Armor in a niche] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1853]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing of an arched niche, surrounded by ornate Gothic tracery, in which several weapons and pieces of armor are arranged. A plumed helmet sits atop the center stack of the arrangement, with an armor chest plate and a round shield below it. Spears and a spiked mace stick out from the left side of the center stack; a variety of axes stick out from the right side
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Mounted before title page in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. The castle of Otranto. Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].
Provenance: Former owners include R.S. Holford and J.O. Jardine Binnie. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from E. Mathews, February 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 12.5 x 9 cm, on sheet 17.1 x 10.9 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 24 17 791P Copy 5
Collection Title: Before title page. Castle of Otranto.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Parma : Printed by Bodoni, for J. Edwards, London, MDCCXCI [1791].

Genre: Illustrations
Pencil works British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: pen and wash, pencil, and white paint on blue wove paper ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Subject (Topic): Armor
Arms & armament
Helmets
Spears
Shields
Axes
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Illustrations
Armor
Arms & armament
Helmets
Spears
Shields
Axes
British > 19th century
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892 > Ownership
Binnie, J. O. Jardine > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Armor in a Niche. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.