[Beau Sidney] [art original]

Description

Title: [Beau Sidney] [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [ca. 1793?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Henry Sidney, Earl of Romney; full-length, facing the viewer with his gaze directed downward and to the right; his boyish face topped with a black hat and framed by long, curly brown hair; wearing a tan coat with gold trim, red stockings, and a white cravat; a sword hangs from his left hip and a muff covers his hands
Description: Title from note in pencil below image, on mounting page.
Signed by the artist in lower right corner.
Date based on publication date of the work in which this drawing is bound.
Bound in opposite page 305 in volume 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Hamilton, A. Memoirs of Count Grammont. London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?].
Provenance: Formerly owned by Sir William Eden, Bart., with his bookplate in the volumes. Sold at Sotheby's, 1 November 1965, (Sir John Eden, Bart. sale), lot 367, to Pickering & Chatto (Seven Gables Bookshop) for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 23.1 x 17 cm, on sheet 27.3 x 20 cm, inlaid to 37 x 28 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 27 19 793B Copy 2
Collection Title: Volume 2, opposite page 305. Memoirs of Count Grammont.
Collection / Other Creator: Hamilton, Anthony, Count, approximately 1646-1720.
Collection Date: London : S. and E. Harding, [1793?]

Genre: Portrait drawings
Watercolor drawings British 18th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Romney, Henry Sidney, Earl of, 1641-1704,
Subject (Topic): Clothing & dress
Muffs
Subjects: Romney, Henry Sidney, Earl of, 1641-1704
Clothing & dress > 18th century
Muffs
British > 18th century
Eden, William, Sir, bart., 1849-1915 > Ownership
Eden, John, Sir, bart., 1925- > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Beau Sidney. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.