Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
[not after 1824]
Call Number:
Folio 33 30 Copy 4
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Half-length portrait of Horace Walpole; his left hand leaning on a book; a view of Strawberry Hill behind him
Description:
Title written in ink in open letters below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., After a portrait by John Giles Eccardt, commissioned by Horace Walpole, that hung in the Blue Bed Chamber at Strawberry Hill. Cf. National Portrait Gallery, London, no.: NPG 988., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 71 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Copy in reverse of George Dance's 1793 pencil drawing of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, in profile looking left, half-length view. The image is foreshortened and the chair eliminated
Description:
Title devised by cataloger. and Date based watermark.
Copy of a portrait of Horace Walpole, after Muntz's 1756 drawing, shown seated in a chair with floral upholstery, in his library, whole length looking at the viewer, an open book in his hand and two on the floor at his feet. In the foreground at his side is a dog and behind him shelves of books. To the left, though the windows, the Thames with a sailboat and rowboat
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed in the image by the artist in ink lower left corner: G.P. Harding fecit., In pencil lower right in unknown hand: "from a drawing by Müntz 1756.", In pencil on verso in unknown hand: "from a drawing by Müntz" followed by "by G.P. Harding" in W.S. Lewis's hand., and George Perfect Harding, English miniature painter, 1779/80-1853.