Artemisia Gentileschi [art original].

Description

Title: Artemisia Gentileschi [art original].
Published / Created: [approximately 1800]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Italian artist Artemisia Gentileschi, half-length, facing the viewer but turning slightly right, in an oval with square frame; her hair is in curls and she wears pearls around her neck and wrist and she holds a paintbrush in her right hand
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date of production supplied by curator.
Bound in opposite page 130 in volume 2 of Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Anecdotes of painting in England. Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780].
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Kirgate, with his manuscript notes in the volumes; probably sold by King and Lochée, 4 December 1810 (Kirgate Sale), lot 386, to Denley. Later owned by Robert Hartshorne of Highlands, NJ, with his bookplate in the first volume of the set. Sold Parke-Bernet, 30 October 1945 (Hartshorne sale), lot 393, to Brick Row for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 10.1 x 8 cm, on sheet 12.5 x 9 cm, inlaid to 23.7 x 19 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 33 10B Copy 4
Collection Title: Volume 2, opposite page 130. Anecdotes of painting in England.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Printed by Thomas Kirgate at Strawberry-Hill, 1765-1771 [i.e. 1780]

Genre: Portrait drawings
Ink drawings British 19th century
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: pen and ink and gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 1653,
Subjects: Gentileschi, Artemisia, 1593-1652 or 1653
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership
Hartshorne, Robert > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Artemisia Gentileschi. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.