[Hannah More] [art original].

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Title: [Hannah More] [art original].
Alternative Title: Miss Anna More
Miss Hannah More, the poetess
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Opie, John, 1761-1807, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Hannah More, bust-length, turned to the left
Description: Title from local catalog card; alternative title from note in ink that misspells sitter's name.
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Probably after the watercolor by Roberts, after John Opie, in the Breakfast Room 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 92a 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 9.5 x 8 cm, on sheet 18.3 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 92a. 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
Wash drawings British 19th century
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: pencil, gray wash, and watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): More, Hannah, 1745-1833,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: More, Hannah, 1745-1833
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Hannah More. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.