Pope Benedict XIV [art original].

Description

Title: Pope Benedict XIV [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Watercolor drawing depicting Pope Benedict XIV, in profile to the left, wearing red clerical dress and cap
Description: Title written in ink in open letters below image.
Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Possibly drawn from a wax model kept by Horace Walpole in the Green Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 62 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : circular image 9 cm, on sheet 10.8 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Portrait drawings
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758,
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subjects: Benedict XIV, Pope, 1675-1758
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Pope Benedict XIV. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.