Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
- Creator
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Contributor
- Worlidge, T. 1700-1766, artist.
- Published / Created
- according to act of Parliament, 1750.
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
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"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
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Title etched below image.
Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185.
Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c.
"Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 76 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 with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 32.9 x 22 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature, imprint statement, and price from bottom edge.
Contemporary annotation in pencil in lower left corner: Worlidge delin.
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 33.6 x 22.5 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Illustrations
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1750
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- etching with engraving and stipple ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
-
Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
Garrick, David, 1717-1779. - Subject (Topic)
- Theatrical productions
- Subjects
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Garrick, David, 1717-1779 > Illustrations
Theatrical productions
England > London > 1750
18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 11149699
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729682
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