Joanna Lady Bergavenny [art original]

Description

Title: Joanna Lady Bergavenny [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Half-length portrait of Joan, Baroness Bergavenny, looking left; wearing an English gable hood and a dress decorated with a cross and embroidery and holding a flower in her left hand
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Signed by the artist at bottom of image.
Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Probably drawn after the painting in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Inlaid on page 96a 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 13.5 x 10.4 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 96a. 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): Bergavenny, Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness, 1375-1435,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Bergavenny, Joan de Beauchamp, Baroness, 1375-1435
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Joanna Lady Bergavenny. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.