Catherine Lady Walpole [graphic]

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Description

Title
Catherine Lady Walpole [graphic]
Creator
Vertue, George, 1684-1756, printmaker
Contributor
Zincke, Christian Frederick, 1685-1767, artist.
Dodsley, Robert, 1704-1764, publisher.
Published / Created
[1752]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Robert Dodsley
Abstract

"Portrait, half-length to front, with head turned to left, looking to front; in an oval frame decorated with flowers, placed on a pedestal decorated with garlands, on which lie a vase with flowers, fruits, palm leaves, a palette with brushes, a portrait miniature of a woman, and a sketch of trees; curtain above; shield with Garter star in foreground on left, with ribbon lettered with motto 'FARI QVÆ SENTIAT'; balustrade on right; curtain above."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title from text in image.
Publication information from that of the volume in which this plate appeared.
Plate from: Walpole, H. Aedes Walpolianae, or, A description of the collection of pictures at Houghton-Hall ... London : [Robert Dodsley], printed in the year MDCCLII [1752].
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Engraved after the enamel miniature kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 166 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 : etching and engraving with stipple on laid paper ; sheet 22.1 x 15.7 cm.
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 22.4 x 17 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
Engravings England London 1752
Etchings England London 1752
Material
etching and engraving with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Walpole, Catherine, Lady, 1681 or 1682-1737
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1752
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
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
12786585
Object ID (OID)
16729750

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