Ninon de Lenclos from an original picture given by herself to the Countess of Sandwich and by the present Earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole, 1757 / [graphic]

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16729788

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Title
Ninon de Lenclos from an original picture given by herself to the Countess of Sandwich and by the present Earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole, 1757 / [graphic]
Creator
Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766, printmaker
Contributor
Elle, Louis Ferdinand, approximately 1612-1689, artist.
Published / Created
[between 1757 and 1766]
Publication Place
London?
Publisher
publisher not identified
Abstract

"Portrait of Ninon de L'Enclos, half-length, three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, with pearl necklace, low-necked gown with bejewelled brooches, strap over her right shoulder; in oval frame with ribbons, curtain, flowers, lettered cartouche below."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched within cartouche at bottom of plate.
Plate signed with printmaker Thomas Worlidge's monogram in upper right corner.
After the portrait probably painted by Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 31, p. 6, note 2.
Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.174.
Original painting was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Mounted on page 206 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 with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 16.3 x 9.7 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 16.5 x 10 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1757
Material
etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Lenclos, Ninon de, 1620-1705,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Lenclos, Ninon de, 1620-1705
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1757
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > 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
12819160
Object ID (OID)
16729788

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