Melancthon [art original].

Description

Title: Melancthon [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Holbein, Hans, 1497-1543, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1806?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait drawing, bust length, nearly in profile to the right; wearing a garment with an open collar
Description: Title from note in pencil in lower right corner of sheet.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Probably drawn after the picture by Holbein in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears.
Mounted on page 127 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 : circular image 11 cm, on sheet 11.5 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portraits
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Melancthon. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.