Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill [art original].
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Lewis Walpole Library > Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill [art original].
16729688
Description
- Title
- Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill [art original].
- Creator
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Contributor
- Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, artist.
- Published / Created
- [not after 1806?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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Portrait of Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; head and shoulders only; facing left
- Description
-
Title from contemporary note in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears.
Annotated lower right "Page 30", the location where the picture is mentioned in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill.
After a picture by Jonathan Richardson, Senior, in the Red Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. "Page 30," the place in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill where that picture is mentioned, is written in pencil in lower right corner.
Mounted on page 89 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
- 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. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 16.4 x 14 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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Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century - Material
- gray wash ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
- Art collections
- Subjects
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Bolingbroke, Henry St. John, Viscount, 1678-1751
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 19th 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.
- Citation
- G.P. Harding, Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13452687
- Object ID (OID)
- 16729688
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