Lord Althorp [art original]

Description

Title: Lord Althorp [art original]
Alternative Title: Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer : for the quarto Poems
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [1804]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title from contemporary note in pencil below image, in an unidentified hand. Alternative title written in pencil at bottom of sheet, in Thomas Kirgate's hand: Lord Althorp, now Earl Spencer : for the quarto Poems.
Artist's name and date written in pencil beneath bottom edge of image.
Tipped in opposite page [1] of The muse recalled, in a volume with the binder's title: Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Charles Bedford, with his bookplate in the volume and his cypher on the spine. Later owned by William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave, with his armorial bookplate. Purchased from Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, 12th Earl Waldegrave, by W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 11.2 x 9.1 cm, on sheet 26.3 x 20.8 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 335 R
Collection Title: Opposite page 1 of The muse recalled. Poems - Strawberry-Hill - 1757-1789.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill, etc., 1757-1797.

Genre: Portrait drawings
Wash drawings
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834,
Subjects: Spencer, George John Spencer, Earl, 1758-1834
Bedford, Charles, 1742?-1814 > Ownership
Waldegrave, William Frederick Waldegrave, Earl, 1851-1930 > Ownership
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ms. notes

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Lord Althorp. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.