Catharine Countesse of Dorchester [art original]

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Title: Catharine Countesse of Dorchester [art original]
Alternative Title: Catherine Countess of Dorchester
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [1806]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester; bust-length, turned slightly to the right; short hair in curls; wearing a loose dress fastened at the left shoulder with a brooch
Description: Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Statement of responsibility and date written in ink along right edge of drawing; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Mounted opposite page 316 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 sheet 14.7 x 13 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title: Opposite page 316. 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): Dorchester, Catherine Sedley, Countess of, 1657-1717,
Subjects: Dorchester, Catherine Sedley, Countess of, 1657-1717
British > 19th century
Davies, Henry > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Catharine Countesse of Dorchester. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.