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Sr John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland
Title
Sr John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland [art original].
Published
[England], [ca. 1762]
Physical Description
1 drawing : mixed materials, including charcoal and graphite with white chalk highlights ; image 40.5 x 28.0 cm, framed to 53.0 x 41.0 cm
Medium
brown paper image 16 1/8 x 11.25 in., on sheet 16.5 x 11.75 in.
Notes
Title from note in Horace Walpole's hand, written in ink on the back of the frame: Sr. John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland.
Attributed to Chambars by Walpole in the Vertue notebooks. See Walpole Society, 1937-38, xxvi, p.62.
Possibly commissioned circa 1763. See Walpole's letter to Bishop Lyttleton, 16 October 1762. See 1983 Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 43, p. 384n.
The original on which this drawing is based was used by Valentine Green for his mezzotint print published in Jany. 1, 1776, from a copy made by George Powle. See Catalogue of engraved British portraits, v. iii, p. 453.
Exhibited: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," at The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, October 2009 - January 2010.
Exhibited: "Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill," at The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom, March - June 2010.
Provenance
Strawberry Hill Sale, xx,112 to Horace Redd; Sotheby's (different properties) 26 October 1953, lot 183, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Biographical / Historical Note
Thomas Chambars, (ca. 1724-1789), English artist.
Summary
Copy of a portrait of Sir John Perrot, for Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill.
Variant and related titles
Sir John Perrot, Lord Deputy of Ireland
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 23, 2008
References
Hazen, A.T. Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3664?
Thomas Chambars, Portrait of Sir John Perrot. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Thomas Chambars, Portrait of Sir John Perrot. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Portraits.
Chalk drawings - British - 18th century.
Charcoal drawings - British - 18th century.
Annotations (Provenance) - 19th century
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