[Playing card, ace of diamonds in the form of a woman's face] [art original]
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Description
- Title
- [Playing card, ace of diamonds in the form of a woman's face] [art original]
- Creator
- Sebright, Henrietta, 1770-1840, artist
- Published / Created
- [1789?]
- Publication Place
- England
- Abstract
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A transformation card
- Description
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Title devised by curator.
Signed with the artist's monogrammatic initials in lower left. Attribution to Henrietta Sebright and supplied date of production from a similar drawing on the previous page of the album, beneath which is mounted the contemporary note "by Miss Sebright, 1789".
Drawn on an ace of diamonds playing card, the single diamond at center colored red.
Mounted on page 195 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 93 x 63 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 3641 Shelved as 49 2523
- Collection Title
- Page 195. 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
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Playing cards
Amateur works
Ink drawings - Material
- pen and brown ink ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subjects
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Henrietta Sebright, Playing Card, Ace of Diamonds Made into a Woman's Face. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15659076
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207481
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