Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic]

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Description

Title
Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic]
Creator
Pariset, D. P., active 1740-1783, printmaker
Contributor
Falconet, Peter, 1741-1791, artist, publisher.
Ryland, Bryer, & Co., publisher.
Published / Created
[between 1768 and 1783]
Publication Place
London
Publisher
Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
Abstract

"Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue

Description
Title etched in open letters on tablet below image.
Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142).
Price following imprint: Pr. 2s.
Formerly laid inside front cover of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13.
For further information, consult library staff.
Provenance
Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Extent
1 print : plate mark 21.7 x 15 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 23 cm
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 33 30 Copy 11 Boxed separately

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Portrait prints
Stipple engravings England London 1768
A la poupée prints
Material
stipple engraving, à la poupée ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797,
Subjects
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
England > London > 1768
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
11706284
Object ID (OID)
16732886

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