Mrs. Clive from the picture at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- Mrs. Clive from the picture at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]
- Alternative Title
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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
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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
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"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
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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
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Portrait prints
Mezzotints England London 1793 - Material
- mezzotint ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subjects
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Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
England > London > 1793
Mackinlay, Thomas > Ownership
Boord, Thomas William, Sir > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 17598478
- Object ID (OID)
- 33300110
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