Margaret, Queen to King Henry the Sixth from an ancient picture in the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford at Strawbery [sic] Hill / [graphic]

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Title: Margaret, Queen to King Henry the Sixth from an ancient picture in the collection of the Right Honourable the Earl of Orford at Strawbery [sic] Hill / [graphic]
Creator: Scheneker, active 1780-1792, printmaker
Contributor: Harding, Sylvester, 1745-1809, artist.
Harding, E. 1755-1840, publisher.
Published / Created: [7 February 1792]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Pub. Feb. 7, 1792, by E. Harding, Fleet Street
Abstract: "Portrait of Margaret of Anjou, half-length, turned to the right, her eyes downcast, a crown over her long straight hair, dressed in an embroidered robe and mantle pinned with jewelled brooches."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate from: Harding, S. Shakespeare illustrated, by an assemblage of portraits & views ... London : S. & E. Harding, 1793.
Mounted on page 101 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 : stipple engraving with etching on wove paper ; sheet 16 x 11.9 cm.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge.
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 18.8 x 14 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Book illustrations
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1792
Material: stipple engraving with etching ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Margaret, of Anjou, Queen, consort of Henry VI, King of England, 1430-1482
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1792
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13202717
Object ID (OID): 16729703