[Head of a woman in profile] [Older head]. [art original]
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Description
- Title
- [Head of a woman in profile] [Older head]. [art original]
- Published / Created
- [not after 1797]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
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Titles devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Two drawings on one sheet, recto and verso. Left edge of sheet is trimmed along profile of the depicted head on recto; sheet is attached to page along right edge only, allowing it to be flipped over to reveal the drawing on verso.
Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the collection in which this drawing is found.
Mounted on page 175 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
- 2 drawings : sheet 11.9 x 8.2 cm, mounted to 27 x 21 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title
- Page 175. 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
- Ink drawings
- Material
- pen and ink ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Head of a Woman in Profile; Older Head. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 15646415
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207436
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