"Portrait of Lady Venetia Digby; half length looking to left; wearing lace-trimmed dress with ribbon tied to a rosette around waist; after miniature by I. Oliver."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state of similar composition
Description:
Title from lettered state; see British Museum online catalogue, registration no: 1920,1211.509., Artist and printmaker from statements of responsibility on lettered state: S. Harding del. ; A. Birrell sculp., Proof before letters., Publication information from imprint on lettered state: Pub. by S. Harding, 127 Pall Mall, Jan. 1, 1802., Lettering on later state indicates that the print was made "from a miniature by Isacc Oliver at Strawberry-Hill.", Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 50 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., and Contemporary annotation in pencil below image: Venitia [sic] La. Digby.
Publisher:
S. Harding
Subject (Name):
Digby, Venetia Stanley, Lady, 1600-1633, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Half length portrait, inclined left, looking front; in long curled wig, plain collar, doublet with slashed sleeves, badge on ribbon over right shoulder
Description:
Title from lettered state., Printmaker and artist from statements of responsibility on lettered state: S. Harding del. ; Birril sc., Proof before letters., Publication date from that of the volume in which the finished plate appeared., Proof state of a plate from: Coxe, W. Memoirs of Horatio, Lord Walpole. London : Printed for T. Cadell, Jun. and W. Davies, 1802., Probably after a painting of Sir Edward Walpole, grandfather of Sir Robert Walpole, that hung in the Library at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Mounted on page 85 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.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Walpole, Edward, Sir, 1621-1667, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)