Queen Elizabeth [art original]

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Title: Queen Elizabeth [art original]
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Hilliard, Nicholas, 1547?-1619, artist.
Published / Created: [1808]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I, three-quarter length, looking left; wearing a large ruff and long strands of pearls around her neck; dressed in a black gown with gold embroidery; holding a closed fan in her right hand
Description: Title written in gold paint within lower border.
Signed and dated by the artist in upper right corner.
"From an original by Hilliard, in the collection of Lord Viscount Grimston at Gorhambury, Herts."--Note in ink at bottom of sheet.
Mounted on page 104 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
Provenance: Given by Mrs. Anne Damer to Sir Wathen Waller. Later owned by John Hely-Hutchinson, with his bookplate on verso of first flyleaf of volume. Sold Sotheby's, 14 March 1956 (Hely-Hutchinson Sale), lot 584, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 19 x 15 cm, on sheet 23 x 19 cm, mounted to 29.4 x 23 cm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
Collection Title: Page 104. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Collection/Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]

Genre: Portrait drawings
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor with wash-line border ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603,
Subjects: Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
British > 19th century
Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 9-1828 > Ownership
Waller, Wathen, Sir > Ownership
Hely-Hutchinson, John Walter, 1882-1955 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, Queen Elizabeth. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.