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Mary Lepelle Lady Hervey
Title
Mary Lepelle Lady Hervey [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; oval image 13 x 11 cm, on sheet 16.1 x 14 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.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 200 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 of Lady Mary Hervey of Ickworth; three-quarter length, standing, face to the left; arms crossed together; wearing hood; after a miniature in the collection of Strawberry Hill.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Mary Lepelle Lady Hervey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Mary Lepelle Lady Hervey. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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