Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2001012718
- Copyright Date:
- [not after 1806?]
- Physical Description:
- 1 drawing : gray wash on wove paper ; sheet 16.4 x 14 cm
- Notes:
- After a picture by Jonathan Richardson, Senior, in the Red Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. "Page 30," the place in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill where that picture is mentioned, is written in pencil in lower right corner.
Annotated lower right "Page 30", the location where the picture is mentioned in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill.
Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears.
Mounted on page 89 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.
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Title from contemporary note in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card. - Abstract:
- Portrait of Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; head and shoulders only; facing left.
- Topics:
- Bolingbroke, Henry St. John,--Viscount,--1678-1751,--depicted.--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79134159
Bull, Richard,--1725-1806--Ownership.
Curtis, Charles Constable,--1852-1936--Ownership.
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow,---1944--Ownership.
Richardson, Jonathan, 1665-1745, artist. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50044694
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)--http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87002938 - Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Portrait drawings.
Wash drawings--British--19th century. - Format:
- Image
- Content Type:
- Prints & Photographs
- Rights:
- These images are provided for study purposes only. For publication or other use of images from the Library's collection, please contact the Lewis Walpole Library at walpole@yale.edu. Further details on the Library's photoduplication policy are available at http://www.library.yale.edu/walpole/html/research/rights_reproductions.html
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Orbis Record:
- 13452687
- Yale Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Digital Collection:
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Local Record Number:
- lwlpr15477
- Citation:
- G.P. Harding, Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
- OID:
- 16729688
- PID:
- digcoll:4703397
