Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist / Subject Heading: Sheep

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Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1824]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Wash drawing depicting a ram's head in profile to the right; in an oval. The original intaglia on cornelian, possibly part of a ring, was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 163 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic):: Art collections, Sheep, and Jewelry
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [A ram's head] [art original].

Creator:: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:: [not after 1824]
Call Number:: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:: 1
Resource Type:: still image
Abstract:: Drawing of the Roman god Mercury, standing full-length, facing viewer; with wings on his ankles and holding the caduceus in his left hand and a flask(?) in his right hand; a lamb and a rooster stand by his feet; in an oval. Based on the intaglia image in ameythyst, "given to Mr. Walpole by General Conway", on view in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill
Description:: Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 163 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) and Mercury (Roman deity),
Subject (Topic):: Art collections, Roosters, Sheep, and Jewelry
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > [Mercury with lamb and rooster] [art original].