Title from caption below image. and Mounted on page 7.
Publisher:
Richard Bentley & Son
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780,, Choiseul-Daillecourt, Maxime de, 1782 or 1783-1854,, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
"Portrait of Marie du Deffand, after Carmontelle; half-length directed to left, her eyes closed, wearing dark hood and ruffled bonnet; in oval."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1868,0808.2306., Engraved after a wash drawing by Carmontelle that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Blue Breakfast Room at Strawberry Hill., Mounted on page 65 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching on wove paper, hand-colored ; oval sheet 7.3 x 5.8 cm and sheet 1.1 x 6.8 cm., Imperfect; oval portrait and title text cut from sheet and mounted one on top of the other, with imprint statement trimmed away., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Publd. Novr. 12 by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall
Subject (Name):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
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:
Portrait of Madame du Deffand, half length, in profile to the left, eyes closed, head covered with a bonnet or hooded garment
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Probably after a wash drawing by Carmontelle that formerly hung in the blue breakfast room at Strawberry Hill., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 55 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):
Du Deffand, Marie de Vichy Chamrond, marquise, 1697-1780, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)