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1. Mrs. Damer & Miss Berry by Cosway [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [circa 1816-1818]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 81 Box D166
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portraits of Miss Mary Berry and Mrs. Anne Damer seated across a table from each other in the Library at Strawberry Hill. Each holds a book in her hand; the table on which they lean is also piled with books
- Alternative Title:
- Mrs. Damer and Miss Berry by Cosway
- Description:
- Title in pencil below image added later in a different hand from the note on the verso., Note on verso in black ink in a contemporary hand: Mrs. Seymour Damer & Miss Berry in the Library at Strawberry Hill, a sketch by Cosway., No longer thought to be in the hand of Cosway., and Date based on other drawings in the collection which have been identified as circa 1816 and not before 1818.
- Subject (Geographic):
- England.
- Subject (Name):
- Damer, Anne Seymour, 1748 or 1749-1828,, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- Artists, Libraries (Rooms & spaces), and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Damer & Miss Berry by Cosway [art original].
2. [Portrait of Mary Berry] [art original]
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1810]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 33 30 Copy 25
- Collection Title:
- Page 35. Description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ...
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Mary Berry; bust length, facing left with head turned towards the viewer; short hair in curls; an oval inside a rectangle
- Alternative Title:
- Miss Agnes Berry
- Description:
- Title assigned by cataloger; alternative title from note in ink that incorrectly identifies sitter., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left corner., Drawn after a miniature by Anne Mee that was commissioned by Horace Walpole in 1790., and Mounted on page 35 in Anne Damer's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXXIV [1784]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 33.
- Subject (Name):
- Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Mary Berry] [art original]