[A country squire] [art original]

Description

Title: [A country squire] [art original]
Published / Created: [1740]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title devised by curator.
Seemingly signed with initials and dated by the artist; the indeterminate, monogrammatic signature may be "CAv." or "Av."
With three stanzas of a song from Henry Carey's 1735 ballad farce The honest Yorkshireman written below image: Come hither my country squire, take friendly instructions from me ...
Mounted on page 75 in a volume of ca. 50 drawings that was assembled from works purchased by Horace Walpole at the Vertue sale of 1757. Now bound in red morocco, this volume has Walpole's manuscript title-page: Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 32, to Smith [London, 1268]. Lord Waldegrave, July 1948, to W.S. Lewis, in a collection.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 26.8 x 16.9 cm, mounted on page 41 x 27 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3581 v.1
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 75. Original drawings of heads, antiquities, monuments, views, &c. by George Vertue and others.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [England], [ca. 1757]