Madam Marie de Vichi Marquis du Deffand from a drawing aat [sic] Strawberry Hill. [graphic]

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Description

Title
Madam Marie de Vichi Marquis du Deffand from a drawing aat [sic] Strawberry Hill. [graphic]
Contributor
Carmontelle, 1717-1806, artist.
Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, publisher.
Published / Created
[between 1798 and 1810]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publd. Novr. 12 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Abstract

"Portrait of Marie du Deffand, after Carmontelle; half-length directed to left, her eyes closed, wearing dark hood and ruffled bonnet; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched below image.
Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.2306.
Engraved after a wash drawing by Carmontelle that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Blue Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 65 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; oval sheet 7.3 x 5.8 cm and sheet 1.1 x 6.8 cm.
Imperfect; oval portrait and title text cut from sheet and mounted one on top of the other, with imprint statement trimmed away.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : oval image 7.2 x 6 cm, on plate 10.6 x 8 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1798
Material
etching ;
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1798
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13444800
Object ID (OID)
16729671

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