Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... [graphic]
- Alternative Title
-
Fair songster
Mrs. Clive : from the picture at Strawberry Hill - Creator
- Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
- Contributor
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Van Haecken, Joseph, 1699-1749, attributed name.
Davison, Jeremiah, approximately 1695-1745, artist. - Published / Created
- [not before 1735]
- Publication Place
- London
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Description
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Title from verses engraved below image.
Alternative titles from later states; see Russell.
After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
State from Russell.
Date "1735" following printmaker's signature has been removed from plate; see description of first state in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Verses below image continue: ... heightens our joys, suspends our fiercest pains, this each one proves who hears they heavnly strains.
Tipped in at page 195 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Sitter identified as "Mrs. Clive" in lower margin, in brown ink in a contemporary hand. - Provenance
- Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
- Extent
- 1 print : plate mark 35.5 x 26 cm, on sheet 35.8 x 26 cm
- Edition
- [State 2].
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1735
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century - Material
- mezzotint ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subjects
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1735
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13251257
- Object ID (OID)
- 16850859
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