[Horace Walpole in his library] [art original]

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Title: [Horace Walpole in his library] [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853
Contributor: Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist.
Published / Created: [between 1802 and 1853?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Copy of a portrait of Horace Walpole, after Muntz's 1756 drawing, shown seated in a chair with floral upholstery, in his library, whole length looking at the viewer, an open book in his hand and two on the floor at his feet. In the foreground at his side is a dog and behind him shelves of books. To the left, though the windows, the Thames with a sailboat and rowboat
Description: Title devised by cataloger.
Signed in the image by the artist in ink lower left corner: G.P. Harding fecit.
In pencil lower right in unknown hand: "from a drawing by Müntz 1756."
In pencil on verso in unknown hand: "from a drawing by Müntz" followed by "by G.P. Harding" in W.S. Lewis's hand.
George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853.
Provenance: Sabin to W.S. Lewis, May 1975.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 17.8 x 13 cm, sheet 20.6 x 14 cm
Language: English

Access: Public
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Citation: George Perfect Harding, Horace Walpole in His Library. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.