Ninon de Lenclos from an original picture given by herself to the Countess of Sandwich and by the present Earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole, 1757. [art original][not before 1757]engPortrait drawing of Ninon de L'Enclos; half-length, turned to right, looking towards the viewer; with pearl necklace, low-necked gown with bejewelled brooches, strap over her right shoulder; in oval frame with ribbons, curtain, flowers; cartouche belowTitle written in cartouche at bottom of image.Unsigned; artist unidentified.Drawn after the portrait likely painted by Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 31, page 6, note 2.Original painting was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.Possibly the original drawing for a plate engraved by Thomas Worlidge. Cf. British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.174.Mounted on page 161 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.