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Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill
Title
Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1806?]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; sheet 16.4 x 14 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title from contemporary note in pencil in lower left corner of sheet.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local catalog card.
Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears.
Annotated lower right "Page 30", the location where the picture is mentioned in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill.
After a picture by Jonathan Richardson, Senior, in the Red Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. "Page 30," the place in Horace Walpole's 1784 Description of Strawberry Hill where that picture is mentioned, is written in pencil in lower right corner.
Mounted on page 89 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Summary
Portrait of Henry St. John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke; head and shoulders only; facing left.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 30, 2018
References
G.P. Harding, Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Lord Bolingbroke, at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portrait drawings.
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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