La Comtesse de Koningsmark; Diana Saxonica [art original]

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Title: La Comtesse de Koningsmark; Diana Saxonica [art original]
Alternative Title: Diana Saxonica
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Schenk, Peter, 1661-1711.
Published / Created: 1805.
Publication Place: London
Abstract: Portrait of Maria Aurora von Königsmarck dressed as the goddess Diana; half-length, shoulders facing left and head turned towards the viewer; wearing a flowing garment, an armband, and a crescent moon hair ornament; with a quiver of arrows strapped to her back
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Signed in ink in lower left corner; place and date of production written in ink in lower right corner.
Probably drawn after a mezzotint by Pieter Schenk that was published in Amsterdam in 1705.
Mounted opposite page 279 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ... From: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII [1798].
Provenance: Formerly owned by Henry Davies, with his bookplate in volume. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Heffer, August 1950.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 11.9 x 9.8 cm, on sheet 13.7 x 10.2 cm
Language: French

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title: Opposite page 279. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ...
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: ink and gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Königsmarck, Aurora von, 1662-1728,
Subjects: Königsmarck, Aurora von, 1662-1728
British > 19th century
Davies, Henry > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, La Comtesse de Konigsmark; Diana Saxonica. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.