[Portrait of a woman] [art original].

Description

Title: [Portrait of a woman] [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of an unidentified woman, bust-length, turned to the left; shoulder-length hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace and a gown with a low neckline
Description: Title from local catalog card.
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.
Most likely drawn after a portrait kept by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill.
Inlaid on page 44a 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 9 x 8 cm, on sheet 16.6 x 14 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 44a. 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
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: pencil and watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Portrait of a Woman. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.