The Countess of Suffolk [art original].

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Title: The Countess of Suffolk [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1805]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of Suffolk; half-length, turned slightly right; with her hair down and her left hand touching it beside her cheek; wearing a low-cut gown
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from signature on a similar drawing mounted in the same volume.
Date of production inferred from similar drawing in the same volume with the date "1805" written on it.
Probably drawn after the portrait by Jervas that was owned by Horace Walpole and kept at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted opposite page 296 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 11.7 x 9 cm, on sheet 15 x 10 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title: Opposite page 296. 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: gray wash with pen and ink ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Davies, Henry > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, The Countess of Suffolk. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.