Miss Vane [art original].

Description

Title: Miss Vane [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1805]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Anne Vane, maid of honour to Caroline of Ansbach and mistress to her son Frederick, Prince of Wales; bust-length, head turned slightly to the left; a stern expression on her face; wearing a low-cut gown and pearls in her hair
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.
Mounted opposite page 311 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 11.2 x 10 cm, on sheet 12.1 x 10 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title: Opposite page 311. 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): Vane, Anne, 1705-1736,
Subjects: Vane, Anne, 1705-1736
British > 19th century
Davies, Henry > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Miss Vane. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.