Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Published / Created:
1805.
Call Number:
Folio 24 27 798
Collection Title:
Opposite page 279. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ...
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
Portrait of Maria Aurora von Königsmarck dressed as the goddess Diana; half-length, shoulders facing left and head turned towards the viewer; wearing a flowing garment, an armband, and a crescent moon hair ornament; with a quiver of arrows strapped to her back
Alternative Title:
Diana Saxonica
Description:
Title written in ink below image., Signed in ink in lower left corner; place and date of production written in ink in lower right corner., Probably drawn after a mezzotint by Pieter Schenk that was published in Amsterdam in 1705., and Mounted opposite page 279 in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Reminiscences, written in 1788 for the amusement of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes B-Y ... From: The works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford. London : Printed for G.G. and J. Robinson, Paternoster-Row, and J. Edwards, Pall-Mall, MDCCXCVIII [1798].
Full-length portrait of a woman, likely to be Mary Anne Clarke, wearing a white neoclassical dress and standing on a balcony with a curtain drapped from the left corner
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Signed and dated by the artist in lower left: Adam Buck, London 1804., Identity of the sitter based on the known partronage of Adam Buck by both Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke. In addition, there exist other examples of similar portraits of Clarke by Buck., and Removed from frame, which is stored separately in LSF Bin 14.
