Bright Truth the genius of fair Painting lights, while the fam'd hist'ry of her sons he writes [graphic].

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Title: Bright Truth the genius of fair Painting lights, while the fam'd hist'ry of her sons he writes [graphic].
Published / Created: [not before 1782]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Description: Title engraved below image.
Date of publication based on reference within design to Richard Cumberland's Anecdotes of eminent painters in Spain ..., first published in 1782.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Probably an illustration to a book or periodical.
Temporary local subject terms: Mythology: Truth -- Literature -- Cherubs -- Symbols: Art -- Reading angel.
Mounted to 28 x 22 cm.
Bound in opposite page 131 in an extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Provenance: Formerly owned by J.H. Anderdon, with bookplate and copious manuscript notes in the volume. Davis & Orioli; October 1941.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 17.8 x 10.8 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 485 842 C76 I Copy 4
Collection Title: Opposite page 131. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: [London] : Smith and Robins, [1842]

Genre: Allegorical prints
Etchings England London 1782
Engravings England London 1782
Material: etching and engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811.
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668.
Subject (Topic): Torches
Putti
Books
Artists' materials
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Cumberland, Richard, 1732-1811
Dufresnoy, Charles-Alphonse, 1611-1668
Torches
Putti
Books
Artists' materials
England > London > 1782
Anderdon, J. H. > Ownership