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- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [approximately 1800]
- Call Number:
- Drawings H263 no. 7 Box D125
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Half-length portrait of Lucy Walter, turned slightly left and looking at the viewer; wearing a pearl necklace, pearl earings, and a blue gown adorned with strings of pearls
- Description:
- Titled by the artist within lower border., Signed in lower left corner with the artist's initials., Date of production supplied by cataloger, based on the dates of similar drawings by G.P. Harding at The Lewis Walpole Library., Note in pencil beneath lower border: From the miniature at Strawberry Hill., Drawn after the miniature owned by Horace Walpole and kept in his Cabinet of Miniatures and Enamels at Strawberry Hill. Walpole believed the miniature to have been painted by Samuel Cooper, but it has since been reattributed to Nicholas Dixon; see Christie's sale catalogue "Fine miniatures, enamels and object of art and vertu", 6 July 1965, lot 36., and A print entitled "Lucy Barlow alias Waters", published by Harding's father Sylvester in 1802 for The biographical mirrour, was probably engraved from this drawing; see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Contents H263 no. 16.
- Subject (Name):
- Walter, Lucy, 1630?-1658, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Pearls and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Lucy Waters [art original]
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1818]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 99 Box D166
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of a grotesque old woman, with lines from Thomas Cambell's poem "Pleasures of Hope" (1799) written in ink below: The world was sad, The garden was a wild, And man the hermit sigh'd 'till woman smil'd.
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Drawn on paper watermarked "J. Whatman Turkey Hill, 1818." Probably a leaf from an album., and On the verso a cropped impression of Plate 21, from the Miseries of London, captioned with a letterpress text cut from the work: See BMSat 10865: At the corner of Chancery Lane a fashionably dressed man and a scavenger have collided violently: both register pain and anger. Hackney coachmen on a stand facing the end of the street watch with amusement. A man behind (left) chases his hat, 1 March 1807.
- Subject (Topic):
- Women and Older people
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Caricature of a grotesque old woman] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1760]
- Call Number:
- LWL Ptg. 114 Framed, on view in New Library
- Image Count:
- 2
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- One of a number of related versions of this portrait in the style of Liotard. The sitter, identified as Maria Gunning, was a notable beauty of her time. She wears Turkish dress, a pearl choker necklace and large pearl earrings. Her pale complexion is achieved by lead white make-up know to be poisonous
- Description:
- Title from 2005 Christie's appraisal. and Artist thought to be a follower of Jean-Etienne Liotard.
- Subject (Name):
- Coventry, Maria Gunning Coventry, Countess of, 1733-1760,
- Subject (Topic):
- Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Maria Gunning, Countess of Coventry] [art original].