Drawing depicting an allegorical scene in which Reason, Rectitude, and Justice appear to Christine de Pisan and promise to assist her in writing La cité des dames
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Unsigned; artist unidentified., After an illumination that was in the library of the King of France; a wash drawing after this illumination was also in Horace Walpole's collection 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):
Christine, de Pisan, approximately 1364-approximately 1431. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)