"Portrait of Ninon de L'Enclos, half-length, three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, with pearl necklace, low-necked gown with bejewelled brooches, strap over her right shoulder; in oval frame with ribbons, curtain, flowers, lettered cartouche below."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched within cartouche at bottom of plate., Plate signed with printmaker Thomas Worlidge's monogram in upper right corner., After the portrait probably painted by Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 31, p. 6, note 2., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.174., Original painting was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 206 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 16.3 x 9.7 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Lenclos, Ninon de, 1620-1705, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Portrait drawing of Ninon de L'Enclos; half-length, turned to right, looking towards the viewer; with pearl necklace, low-necked gown with bejewelled brooches, strap over her right shoulder; in oval frame with ribbons, curtain, flowers; cartouche below
Description:
Title written in cartouche at bottom of image., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn after the portrait likely painted by Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 31, page 6, note 2., Original painting was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Possibly the original drawing for a plate engraved by Thomas Worlidge. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.174., and Mounted on page 161 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Subject (Name):
Lenclos, Ninon de, 1620-1705, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Ninon de L'Enclos, half-length, three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, with pearl necklace, low-necked gown with bejewelled brooches, strap over her right shoulder; in oval frame with ribbons, curtain, flowers, unlettered cartouche below; working proof"--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title and artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1838,1215.58., Lettering on published state: Ninon de Lenclos from an original picture given by herself to the Countess of Sandwich and by the present Earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole 1757., Place of publication based on location of printmaker., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., and In paper frame: 35.5 x 25.0 cm. Annotation in ms. in various hands on verso of etching. Dealer's catalogue description affixed to front.