Robert Earl of Essex [art original]

Description

Title: Robert Earl of Essex [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Oliver, Isaac, 1556?-1617, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; bust-length, facing three-quarter to left, eyes to the viewer; head completed, clothes drawn in outline; with short hair and a long, square beard
Description: Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Signed by the artist in lower left corner.
Probably drawn after a miniature by Isaac Oliver that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Inlaid on page 58f 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 : sheet 11.5 x 10 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 58f. 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
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Essex, Robert Devereux, Earl of, 1565-1601
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Robert Earl of Essex. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.