Portrait of Sr. Robert Walpole [art original]
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Description
- Title
- Portrait of Sr. Robert Walpole [art original]
- Alternative Title
- Portrait of Sir Robert Walpole
- Creator
- Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1706-1784, printmaker
- Published / Created
- [not after 1784]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
-
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink on verso; this contemporary annotation faces upward when sheet is folded in half as intended.
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Mounted below another portrait drawing of Robert Walpole, also by Sir Edward Walpole.
Mounted on page 155 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641). - Provenance
- Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 127, to Graves, Pall-Mall, £1.5.0. [London, 1258]. Inserted into Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) when the volume was rebound soon after 1844. Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 42 x 84 mm, folded to 42 x 42 mm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title
- Page 155. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [between 1771 and 1792]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Portrait drawings
Amateur works
Graphite drawings
Pencil works - Material
- graphite pencil ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
- Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745,
- Subjects
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Walpole, Robert, Earl of Orford, 1676-1745
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Sir Edward Walpole, Portrait of Sr. Robert Walpole. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 15646000
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207403
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