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:
St. Catherine of Alexandria with a halo, half-length, shown reading a book held in her right hand and a palm branch in her left hand resting on the wheel barely visible below
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a picture by Catherine, Lady Walpole, which was copied from a painting by Correggio and was kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 62 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):
Catherine, of Alexandria, Saint, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
