Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1810]
Call Number:
Quarto 33 30 Copy 6
Collection Title:
Page 18a. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Lady Digby at age 19; bust-length, shown in three-quarter profile to the right; her hair in curls; wearing a pearl necklace
Description:
Title written in ink below image, on mounting page., Unsigned; attribution to G.P. Harding from local catalog card., Probably drawn after a miniature by Peter Oliver (now in the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm [NMB 971 or 972]), that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill., Date based on death date of Thomas Kirgate, who likely assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is found., and Inlaid on page 18a 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].
Subject (Name):
Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
A group of drawings by George Vertue of items in the Earl of Oxford's collection, many presumably sold in the sale of 1741-2. Among the items depicted are urns, busts and statues, various fragments with Greek inscriptions, a medal, an ossuary, and a sarcophagus. The group of drawings ends with a copy the portrait by Van Dyck of Sir Kenelm Digby and his family, and it begins with Vertue's orginal drawing for the engraved frontispiece to: A catalogue of Greek, Roman and English coins, medallions and medals, of the Right Honourable Edward Earl of Oxford, deceased
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Bound by George Vertue in a volume with Harleian catalogues and plates., and Original mottled calf, rebacked. Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis's notes on back endpaper.
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and England.
Subject (Name):
Oxford, Edward Harley, Earl of, 1689-1741, Digby, Kenelm, 1603-1665,, and Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633,
Subject (Topic):
Art collections, Art, Private collections, Sculpture, Portraits, Urns, Medals, and Sarcophagi