Lady Arabella Stvart [graphic]
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16733015
Description
- Title
- Lady Arabella Stvart [graphic]
- Alternative Title
- Lady Arabella Stuart
- Creator
- Basire, James, 1769-1822, printmaker
- Contributor
- Vertue, George, 1684-1756, artist.
- Published / Created
- [1791]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"Portrait of Lady Arabella Seymour, born Stuart; three-quarter length, slightly to the left; one hand resting on table to the left with two books behind; wearing pearls that reach down to her waist."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title etched below image.
Probably a proof state; for a later state with title re-etched and plate number added in upper right corner, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: 33 30 Copy 4.
Possibly engraved after the drawing by Vertue that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 124 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 24.6 x 21 cm
- Edition
- [State with open-letter title and lacking plate no.].
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Portrait prints
Engravings England London 1791
Etchings England London 1791
Proofs - Material
- etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Stuart, Arabella, Lady, 1575-1615,
- Subjects
-
Stuart, Arabella, Lady, 1575-1615
England > London > 1791
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13502467
- Object ID (OID)
- 16733015
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