[A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]

Description

Title: [A 'coquet sphinx'] [graphic]
Published / Created: [approximately 1785?]
Publication Place: England?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: Depiction of a sphinx with a woman's head, facing right, sitting on a pedestal
Description: Title devised by curator, taken from the footnote on page 51 of: Walpole, H. Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Strawberry Hill, 1785.
Date of publication from unverified data in local card catalogue record.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Charles Bedford, with his bookplate in the volume and his cypher on the spine. Later owned by William Frederick, 9th Earl Waldegrave, with his armorial bookplate.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.9 x 20 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 335 T
Collection Title: Opposite page 51 in Essai sur l'art des jardins modernes ... Miscellanies - Strawberry-Hill - 1772-1785.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill, 1758-1790?

Genre: Etchings England 1785
Material: etching with engraving ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Sculpture
Sphinxes
Subjects: Sculpture
Sphinxes
England > 1785
Bedford, Charles, 1742?-1814 > Ownership
Waldegrave, William Frederick Waldegrave, Earl, 1851-1930 > Ownership
Waldegrave, Geoffrey Noel Waldegrave, Earl, 1905- > Ownership