Lady Bellasis [art original].

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Title: Lady Bellasis [art original].
Alternative Title: Lady Belasyse
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1805]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Susan, Baroness Belasyse, who was courted by James, Duke of York before he became King James II; bust-length, shoulders facing left with head turned towards the viewer; her hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace and a gown with a low neckline
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 on page 316b 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 7.8 x 7 cm, on sheet 9.7 x 8 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title: Page 316b. 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): Belasyse, Susan Belasyse, Baroness, -1713,
Subjects: Belasyse, Susan Belasyse, Baroness, -1713
British > 19th century
Davies, Henry > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Lady Bellasis. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.