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Sir William Hamilton
Title
Sir William Hamilton [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; oval image 10.6 x 9 cm, on sheet 13.3 x 11 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from unverified data in local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 40 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.
Provenance
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Summary
Portrait drawing of Sir William Hamilton, bust-length, in profile facing left; apparently after the Wedgwood medallion in Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Sir William Hamilton. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Sir William Hamilton. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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