[Two Oriental figures] [art original].

Description

Title: [Two Oriental figures] [art original].
Published / Created: [19th century?]
Publication Place: England?
Abstract: Two Asian figures, a woman and a girl, stand facing each other beneath tall bamboo plants; they wear traditional attire, perhaps that of China
Description: Title from local card catalog record.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date supplied by cataloger.
Image partially cut out of sheet; the blank parts of the sheet have been trimmed away from the top half of the octagonal decorative border, and from around the figures and bamboo plants.
Laid in at page 377 in Horace Walpole's copy of Matthew Prior's Poems on several occasions.
Temporary local subject terms: ?China: Social life and customs.
Provenance: Drawing laid in a volume formerly owned by Horace Walpole, with the signature of his mother Catherine Walpole also present. Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 196, to Boone for Lord Derby; removed at some time from Knowsley Hall; purchased in 1942, 'in a junk shop in Phenix City, Alabama,' by Mr. Clement S. Eicks, Denton, Maryland. Eicks, July 1954, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 11.2 x 11.3 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 2047
Collection Title: Page 377. Poems on several occasions.
Collection / Other Creator: Prior, Matthew, 1664-1721.
Collection Date: London : Printed for Jacob Tonson ..., and John Barber ..., 1718.

Access: Public
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Citation: Two Oriental Figures. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.