Mrs. Clive from the picture at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker[not before 1793]eng"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 catalogueTitle 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.