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Mercury with lamb and rooster
Title
[Mercury with lamb and rooster] [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; oval image 5.3 x 5 cm, on sheet 10.3 x 9 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 163 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 of the Roman god Mercury, standing full-length, facing viewer; with wings on his ankles and holding the caduceus in his left hand and a flask(?) in his right hand; a lamb and a rooster stand by his feet; in an oval. Based on the intaglia image in ameythyst, "given to Mr. Walpole by General Conway", on view in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
May 10, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Mercury With Lamb and Rooster. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Mercury With Lamb and Rooster. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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