[Portrait of Mary Berry] [art original]

Description

Title: [Portrait of Mary Berry] [art original]
Alternative Title: Miss Agnes Berry
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Mee, Anne, 1775?-1851, artist.
Published / Created: [1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Mary Berry; bust length, facing left with head turned towards the viewer; short hair in curls; an oval inside a rectangle
Description: Title assigned by cataloger; alternative title from note in ink that incorrectly identifies sitter.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner.
Drawn after a miniature by Anne Mee that was commissioned by Horace Walpole in 1790.
Mounted on page 35 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Provenance: Given by Mrs. Anne Damer to Sir Wathen Waller. Later owned by John Hely-Hutchinson, with his bookplate on verso of first flyleaf of volume. Sold Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (Hely-Hutchinson Sale), lot 584, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 8 x 7 cm, on sheet 14 x 12 cm, mounted to 29.4 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title: Page 35. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Genre: Portrait drawings
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Berry, Mary, 1763-1852,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Berry, Mary, 1763-1852
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Ownership
Waller, Wathen, Sir > Ownership
Hely-Hutchinson, John Walter, 1882-1955 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Portrait of Mary Berry. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.