Genre: Wash drawings British 19th century / Subject (Name): Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775,

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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:: Portrait drawing of Thomas Ashton; half length, turned slightly right; in a black gown with white bands; wearing a wig, center-parted
Alternative Title:: Dr. Thomas Ashton
Description:: Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Possibly after a painting by Eccardt that hung in Mr. Walpole's Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 104 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):: Ashton, Thomas, 1716-1775, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Found in:: Lewis Walpole Library > Dr. Thos. Ashton [art original].