Reason, Rectitude & Justice appearing to Christina de Pisan and promising to assist her in writing La cité des dames from an illumination in the library of the King of France. [graphic]

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16729676

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Title: Reason, Rectitude & Justice appearing to Christina de Pisan and promising to assist her in writing La cité des dames from an illumination in the library of the King of France. [graphic]
Alternative Title: Reason, Rectitude and Justice appearing to Christina de Pisan ...
Contributor: Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [1786]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Publisher: Strawberry Hill Press
Description: Title from text below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate from: Walpole, H. Postscript to the royal and noble authors. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1786.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Engraved after an illumination that was in the library of the King of France; a wash drawing after this illumination was also in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 69 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 laid paper, hand-colored ; sheet 11.7 x 13.1 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of text below image.
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 : sheet 14.5 x 17 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Allegorical prints
Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1786
Material: etching ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1786
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13196499
Object ID (OID): 16729676