Mrs. Clive in the character of Mrs. Heidelberg done from an original picture of the same size in the possession of Her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland. [graphic]

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Title: Mrs. Clive in the character of Mrs. Heidelberg done from an original picture of the same size in the possession of Her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland. [graphic]
Creator: Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
Contributor: Sayer, Robert, 1725-1794, publisher.
Smith, J. active approximately 1750-1792, publisher.
Published / Created: [1769]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
Abstract: "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched below image.
Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184.
Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner.
Mounted on page 235 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.
Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written.
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 9 x 8 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
Etchings England London 1769
Material: etching with stipple ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
Colman, George, 1732-1794.
Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Theatrical productions
Subjects: Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Garrick, David, 1717-1779
Colman, George, 1732-1794
Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776 > Art collections
Theatrical productions
England > London > 1769
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

Access: Public
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Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13613035
Object ID (OID): 16729800