[Madame Mary Kirk] [graphic].

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Title: [Madame Mary Kirk] [graphic].
Published / Created: [not after 1806?]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait, head and shoulders slightly to left, head turned to right and glancing towards the viewer; wearing a low-necked gown with a rope of pearls hanging from the shoulder and a veil over her hair; in an oval
Description: Title from pencil annotation below image.
Date of publication based on death date of Richard Bull, who included an impression of this print in an extra-illustrated volume he assembled.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
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.
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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 6.4 x 5 cm, on sheet 7.9 x 8 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1806
Drypoints England London 1806
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and drypoint ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Vernon, Mary Kirk, Lady,
Subjects: Vernon, Mary Kirk, Lady
England > London > 1806
18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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