An old officer in uniform with a wrinkled face and carbuncles looks lustfully at a pretty young woman as they walk together on a path, his hand grasping hers
Description:
Title inscribed below image., Attributed to Rowlandson., and Date supplied by cataloger.
Subject (Topic):
Military uniforms, British, Lust, Older people, Young adults, and Women
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)
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.
Two women in neoclassical dress hold garlands and dance around a bust statue of Thomas Gray; trees and bushes are seen in the background
Description:
Title devised by curator., Signed by the artist in lower left corner., Date of production based on artist's death date., and Bound in as the frontispiece in an extra-illustrated copy of Thomas Gray's Poems.