The Right Honble. Heneage Earle of Winchelsea [art original]

Description

Title: The Right Honble. Heneage Earle of Winchelsea [art original]
Alternative Title: Right Honorable Heneage Earl of Winchilsea
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1853]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Heneage Finch, 5th Earl of Winchilsea; half-length to the left, with head in three-quarter profile to the left; wearing a long wig and a coat fastened by the top button
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Signed by the artist in ink in lower left portion of image using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above.
"From a scarce print by Virtue [sic]"--Pencil annotation at bottom of sheet.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
With placement instruction "p. 81" written in pencil below image in lower right.
Inlaid opposite page 81 in volume 2 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 : oval image 8.5 x 8 cm, on sheet 11.2 x 9 cm, inlaid to 17.4 x 11 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 33 3 Copy 14
Collection Title: Volume 2, opposite page 81. 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): Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, -1689,
Subjects: Winchilsea, Heneage Finch, Earl of, -1689
British > 19th century
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892 > Ownership
Holford, George Lindsay, Sir, 1860-1926 > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: G.P. Harding, The Right Honble. Heneage Earle of Winchelsea. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.