[Allegorical scene of Christina of Pisa writing her Cité des dames] [art original].

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Title: [Allegorical scene of Christina of Pisa writing her Cité des dames] [art original].
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing depicting an allegorical scene in which Reason, Rectitude, and Justice appear to Christine de Pisan and promise to assist her in writing La cité des dames
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
After an illumination that was in the library of the King of France; a wash drawing after this illumination was also in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 55 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 15.5 x 16 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Ink drawings British 19th century
Material: pen and ink drawing ; and wove paper
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

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Citation: Unidentified Artist, Allegorical Scene of Christina of Pisa Writing Her Cité des Dames. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.