Pope's mother, done by candle light [art original]

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Title: Pope's mother, done by candle light [art original]
Alternative Title: Mrs. Pope
Creator: Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, artist
Published / Created: 1709.
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait head of a middle-aged woman, directed to right, looking slightly downwards; wearing a plain veil and a gown which conceals her neck
Description: Title from note in pencil in lower left; alternative title from note in pencil in lower right.
Signed with the initial "R." in lower right corner; attribution to Jonathan Richardson the Elder from local catalog card.
Date written in ink following title.
Mounted on page 90 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 14.6 x 13 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Pencil works
Material: pencil on vellum ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Pope, Edith, 1642-1733,
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744.
Subjects: Pope, Edith, 1642-1733
Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Jonathan Richardson, Pope's Mother, Done by Candle Light. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.