Madame Pagansikar of Osnabruck [art original]
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Description
- Title
- Madame Pagansikar of Osnabruck [art original]
- Creator
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1767?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
-
Title and statement of responsibility from note in ink on a one of diamonds playing card (84 x 57 mm) mounted below drawing; alternative statement of responsibility "by Miss Conway" written in pencil at top of image.
Date inferred from the use of artist Anne Seymour Damer's maiden name Conway; she was married to John Damer in 1767.
Mounted on page 189 in a volume containing Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) and his Catalogue of pictures and drawings in the Holbein Chamber at Strawberry-Hill (Hazen 2619.4). Part of the collection: Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole (Hazen 3641). - Provenance
- Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 127, to Graves, Pall-Mall, £1.5.0. [London, 1258]. Inserted into Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of the 1774 edition of Description of the villa of Horace Walpole (Hazen 2523) when the volume was rebound soon after 1844. Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
- Extent
- 1 drawing : sheet 84 x 57 mm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title
- Page 189. Portfolio containing 50 drawings by Lady Diana Beauclerk and her daughter Mary, Miss Sebright, Miss Knight, Mrs. Damer, John Gooch, Samuel Lysons, Sir Edward Walpole, and Thomas Walpole.
- Collection / Other Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
- Collection Date
- [England], [between 1771 and 1792]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Caricatures
Playing cards
Ink drawings - Material
- pen and ink over pencil ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Anne Seymour Damer, Madame Pagansikar of Osnabruck. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 15658459
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207467
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