[Mary Kirk Lady Vernon] [graphic].

Description

Title: [Mary Kirk Lady Vernon] [graphic].
Published / Created: [not after 1797]
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Portrait of a woman, head and shoulders slightly to left, head turned to right and glancing towards the viewer, wearing a low-necked gown with a rope of pearls hanging from the shoulder and a veil over her hair; in an oval
Description: Title from note below image in Horace Walpole's hand.
Date of publication based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose annotation is present on sheet.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark on right and left sides.
Mounted on page 68 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : oval image 6.5 x 5 cm, on sheet 8.4 x 9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait prints
Etchings England London 1797
Drypoints England London 1797
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching and drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Vernon, Mary Kirk, Lady,
Subjects: Vernon, Mary Kirk, Lady
England > London > 1797
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

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