Mrs. Barry [art original].

Description

Title: Mrs. Barry [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Kneller, Godfrey, Sir, 1646-1723, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of the actress Elizabeth Barry; bust length, in profile to the left; hair pulled backwards on the side; wearing a flowing, low-cut dress with a button on the shoulder
Description: Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Probably after the painting by Sir Godfrey Kneller in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 194 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 : oval image 12.4 x 11 cm, on sheet 14.9 x 12 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Barry, Elizabeth, approximately 1658-1713,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Barry, Elizabeth, approximately 1658-1713
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Mrs. Barry. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.