Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... [graphic]Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker[not before 1735]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 catalogue, description of a later stateTitle from verses engraved below image.Alternative titles from later states; see Russell.After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill.State from Russell.Date "1735" following printmaker's signature has been removed from plate; see description of first state in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits.Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins.Verses below image continue: ... heightens our joys, suspends our fiercest pains, this each one proves who hears they heavnly strains.Tipped in at page 195 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.Sitter identified as "Mrs. Clive" in lower margin, in brown ink in a contemporary hand.