[Mary, Queen of Scots] [art original]

Description

Title: [Mary, Queen of Scots] [art original]
Contributor: Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, artist.
Published / Created: [19th century?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Mary, Queen of Scotland; half-length, turned to the left; wearing a dark embroidered gown with fur trim and a cap on her head
Description: Title devised by curator.
Signed with initials in lower right portion of image; artist "W.K." unidentified.
"After Isaac Oliver."--Pencil annotation on verso.
Date of production supplied by cataloger.
With placement instruction "184" written in pencil in lower right corner of sheet.
Inlaid opposite page 184 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 8.8 x 8 cm, on sheet 9.2 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 2, opposite page 184. 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 (Geographic): Scotland.
Subject (Name): Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587,
Subject (Topic): Queens
Subjects: Mary, Queen of Scots, 1542-1587
Queens > Scotland
British > 19th century
Holford, Robert Stayner, 1808-1892 > Ownership
Holford, George Lindsay, Sir, 1860-1926 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Mary, Queen of Scots. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.