Notes
"These are generally ascribed in catalogues to [George Savile, 1st marquis of] Halifax, but were not in reality from his pen"--Dict. nat. biog.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iii, lot 116 (with Anderton, Bulstrode, Capell, Conti, Hooper and Plautus), to Rodd, 16/-; offered in Strong's Catalogue for 1843, lot 660, for 7/6; Fletcher, 8 April 1846 (John Britton Sale, Part 4), lot 519, to R. Smith, 1/-; Sotheby's, 28 April 1947 (Shirley Sale), lot 40.