Robert Earl of Essex [art original]Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist[not after 1810]engPortrait of Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex; bust-length, facing three-quarter to left, eyes to the viewer; head completed, clothes drawn in outline; with short hair and a long, square beardTitle written in ink below image, on mounting page.Signed by the artist in lower left corner.Probably drawn after a miniature by Isaac Oliver that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found.Inlaid on page 58f in Thomas Kirgate's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784].