Catharine Duchess of Buckingham [art original]

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Title: Catharine Duchess of Buckingham [art original]
Alternative Title: Katherine Duchess of Buckingham
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Katherine Sheffield, Duchess of Buckingham and Normanby, the illegitimate daughter of King James II and Catherine Sedley, Countess of Dorchester; half-length, facing the viewer with her head turned slightly left; curls of her long hair falling over her right shoulder; wearing pendant earrings and a small jacket over a dress with a low neckline
Description: Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Signed with initials and dated in lower right portion of image; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Mounted opposite page 317 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 10.1 x 8 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title: Opposite page 317. 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): Buckingham and Normanby, Katherine Sheffield, Duchess of, 1681 or 1682-1743,
Subjects: Buckingham and Normanby, Katherine Sheffield, Duchess of, 1681 or 1682-1743
British > 19th century
Davies, Henry > Ownership

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