The Honble. Mrs. Damer [graphic]

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Description

Title
The Honble. Mrs. Damer [graphic]
Alternative Title
Honourable Mrs. Damer
Creator
Schiavonetti, Luigi, 1765-1810, printmaker
Contributor
Cosway, Richard, 1740-1821, artist.
Molteno, Colnaghi & Co., publisher.
Published / Created
[1 February 1791]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Publish'd Feby. 1, 1791, by Molteno, Colnaghi & Co., No. 132 Pall Mall
Abstract

"Portrait of the Honorable Mrs Damer after Richard Cosway, half-length slightly to right in a square frame, looking to front, her hair curled and falling about her shoulders and with a huge frilled collar and bow at front of dress."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title engraved below image.
Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint statement from bottom edge. Imprint supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: Q,3.146.
Engraved after the drawing commissioned by Horace Walpole and kept in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 234 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
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 19.1 x 12 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Crayon manner prints England London 1791
A la poupée prints England London 1791
Material
crayon manner, à la poupée ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1791
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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Identifiers

Orbis Record
13612948
Object ID (OID)
16729797

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