Henrietta Hobart, Countess of Suffolk [art original].

Description

Title: Henrietta Hobart, Countess of Suffolk [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Jervas, Charles, approximately 1675-1739, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of Suffolk; half-length, turned slightly right; with her hair long and her left hand beside her cheek. After the portrait by Jervas that was owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Inlaid on page 24c in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Provenance: Probably from Thomas Kirgate's library, with his (as well as Horace Walpole's) manuscript notes in the volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 12 June 1933 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 365, to Maggs. Sold by Maggs to W.S. Lewis, August 1933.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 12.5 x 10 cm, on sheet 15.6 x 14 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 24c. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Genre: Portrait drawings
Pencil works British 19th century
Chalk drawings British 19th century
Material: pencil and chalk ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Suffolk, Henrietta Hobart Howard, Countess of, 1688?-1767
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Henrietta Hobart, Countess of Suffolk. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.