Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby aetatis 19. [art original]

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Title: Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby aetatis 19. [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Oliver, Peter, 1594-1648, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Lady Digby at age 19; bust-length, shown in three-quarter profile to the right; her hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace
Description: Title written in ink below image, on mounting page.
Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card.
Probably drawn after a miniature by Peter Oliver (now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm [NMB 971 or 972]), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.
Inlaid on page 18a in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].
Provenance: Probably from Thomas Kirgate's library, with his (as well as Horace Walpole's) manuscript notes in the volume. Sold at Sotheby's, 12 June 1933 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 365, to Maggs. Sold by Maggs to W.S. Lewis, August 1933.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 8.4 x 8 cm, inlaid to 29.5 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title: Page 18a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Genre: Portrait drawings
Pencil works British 19th century
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: pencil and watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Art collections
Subjects: Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Art collections
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Venetia Stanley, Lady Digby. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.