The fair songster [graphic]Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker[not before 1762]eng"Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogueTitle engraved below image, on either side of verses.Alternative title from later state; see Russell.After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states.Date "1735" has been removed and title and publication line have been added to the plate; these changes constitute the second state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell.Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue.Four lines of verse engraved below image: Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ...Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge and imprint statement has been erased. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: K,58.180.Plate numbered "319" in lower left corner.Mounted on page 220 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.