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Portrait of King Richard III and his Queen
Title
[Portrait of King Richard III and his Queen] [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink ; sheet 20 x 17 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Possibly after a drawing from painted glass by George Vertue, which formerly hung in the blue breakfast room at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 55 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
Drawing, full-length, of King Richard III and his Queen, in robes and crowned.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
February 11, 2016
References
Portrait of King Richard III and his Queen. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Portrait of King Richard III and his Queen. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Group portraits.
Ink drawings - British - 19th century.
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