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"She brought out a dram to warm me and my servants and we were very merry and comfortable"
Title
"She brought out a dram to warm me and my servants and we were very merry and comfortable" [art original] / D.E. Cronin '90.
Production
[New York?], [1890]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; image 16.6 x 13 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title written below image, a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to Lord Nunham, 7 July 1777 in reference to Lady Cecilia Johnston.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 150.
Bound in as page 234 in volume 6 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance
Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Summary
Lady Cecilia Johnston, shown three-quarter length, turns slightly left but looking back over her shoulder as she reaches for a carafe on an elaborately carved hutch in a fashionably decorated room. She wears a dress with lace sleeves, her hair up in a lace cap. Behind her on the right, one cat is curled in an upholstered chair while another sits in front. Through the window behind, a winter scene, with snow covering the ground, a church, and a leafless tree.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2018
References
David Edward Cronin, "She Brought Out a Dram to Warm Me and My Servants and We Were Very Merry and Comfortable". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
David Edward Cronin, "She Brought Out a Dram to Warm Me and My Servants and We Were Very Merry and Comfortable". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Watercolors - American - 19th century.
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