Lucy Waters [art original]

Description

Title: Lucy Waters [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Cooper, Samuel, 1609-1672, attributed name.
Dixon, Nicholas, active 1660-1708, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1800]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
Description: Titled by the artist within lower border.
Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials.
Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library.
Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill.
Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36.
A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
Provenance: Purchased by The Lewis Walpole Library from Sarah Harris, October 2022.
Extent: 1 drawing : oval image 8 x 7 cm, sheet 15.6 x 11 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English