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Lord Vaux
Title
Lord Vaux [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; sheet 13.4 x 11 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably after the drawing by Müntz in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 112 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
Half-length portrait, facing right; wearing a cap.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 11, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Lord Vaux. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Lord Vaux. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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