Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby [art original] : aetatis 19.

Creator:

Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist.

Copyright Date:

[not after 1810]

Physical Description:

1 drawing : pencil and watercolor on wove paper ; sheet 8.4 x 8 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm

Related Links:

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2804377 http://hdl.handle.net/10079/digcoll/2804569

Notes:

Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Probably drawn after a miniature by Peter Oliver (now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm [NMB 971 or 972]), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Inlaid on page 18a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Probably from Thomas Kirgate's library, with his (as well as Horace Walpole's) manuscript notes in the volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 12 June 1933 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 365, to Maggs. Sold by Maggs to W.S. Lewis, August 1933.

Abstract:

Portrait of Lady Digby at age 19; bust-length, shown in three-quarter profile to the right; her hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace.

Topics:

Digby, Venetia Stanley,--Lady,--1600-1633,--depicted.
Kirgate, Thomas,--1734-1810--Ownership.
Oliver, Peter, 1594-1648, artist.
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)

Language:

English

Genre:

Pencil works--British--19th century.
Portraits.
Watercolors--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

Source Title:

Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...

Call Number:

Quarto 33 30 Copy 6

Orbis Record:

11707615

Yale Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Digital Collection:

Lewis Walpole Library

Citation:

G.P. Harding, Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

OID:

16822550

PID:

digcoll:4777891