The right Honourable and most noble Robert Devereux, Earle of Essex and Ewe ... [art original]

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Title: The right Honourable and most noble Robert Devereux, Earle of Essex and Ewe ... [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Pass, Simon van de, 1595?-1647.
Payne, John, -1647?
Published / Created: [not after 1853]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; half-length, turned to the right; wearing a wide-brimmed hat and a ruff
Description: Title written below image.
Title continues: ... Visco. Hereforde, Lo. Bourchier & Louaine, Ba. Ferrers of Chartley.
Signed by the artist with initials in lower right corner.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Seemingly drawn after the 17th century portrait print by Simon van de Pass that was altered by John Payne. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: P,3.134.
With placement instruction "p. 111" written in pencil on verso.
Inlaid opposite page 111 in volume 1 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England. [Twickenham, England] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Robert S. Holford and George Holford; volumes sold at Sotheby's, 30 March 1928 (Holford Sale), lot 886, to Quaritch. Sold by Quaritch to W.S. Lewis, August 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 9 x 7 cm, on sheet 10.5 x 8 cm, inlaid to 17.4 x 11 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 33 3 Copy 14
Collection Title: Volume 1, opposite page 111. Catalogue of the royal and noble authors of England.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: [Twickenham, England] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601,
Subjects: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
British > 19th century
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892 > Ownership
Holford, George Lindsay, Sir, 1860-1926 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, The Right Honourable and Most Noble Robert Devereux, Earle of Essex and Ewe. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.