Mrs. Clive from the picture at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]

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Title: Mrs. Clive from the picture at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
Alternative Title: Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ...
Fair songster
Creator: Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
Contributor: Van Haecken, Joseph, 1699-1749, attributed name.
Davison, Jeremiah, approximately 1695-1745, artist.
Bowles & Carver, publisher.
Published / Created: [not before 1793]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard
Abstract: "Portrait of Catherine Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder; after Joseph van Haecken; state after title and publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from text engraved on either side of verses below image.
Fifth and final state, with the former title "The fair songster" replaced and the publication line altered; see Russell.
Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792. See: Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers, page 31.
Original date "1735" following printmaker's signature has been removed from plate; see description of the first state in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.
After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.
Verses below image continue: ... heightens our joys, suspends our fiercest pains, this each one proves who hears they heavnly strains.
Plate numbered "319" in lower left corner.
Window mounted to 45 x 31 cm.
Bound in after page 208 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Mackinlay. Also owned by Sir Thomas William Boord, Bart., with his bookplate in the volumes. Sotheby's, Mrs. E.M. Copeman, lot 110; 3 June 1935.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 35.6 x 24.9 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Edition: [State 5].
Language: English