Anna Chamber, Countess Temple from a portrait by Hamilton in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

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Description

Title
Anna Chamber, Countess Temple from a portrait by Hamilton in the collection at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
Creator
Birrell, W., active 1798, printmaker
Contributor
Hamilton, Hugh Douglas, 1740-1808, artist.
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, publisher.
Published / Created
1798.
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
Published by T. Kirgate
Abstract

Portrait of Ann Countess Temple; as an older woman; half length face almost in profile to left; wearing frilled fichu and matching cap with a dark scarf around chin

Description
Title etched below image.
Engraved after a drawing by Hugh Douglas Hamilton, now in the National Portrait Gallery, London (NPG 246), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 75 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.
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 16.5 x 13 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1798
Material
stipple engraving ; and wove paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Temple, Anne Grenville-Temple, Countess, 1709-1777,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Temple, Anne Grenville-Temple, Countess, 1709-1777
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
13447849
Object ID (OID)
16729681

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