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1. [Découpage with silhouettes of the Duke of Grafton, the Duchess of Grafton, and Voltaire] [art original].
- Creator:
- Huber, Jean, 1721-1786, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1761 or 1762]
- Call Number:
- SH Contents H877 no. 1++ Box 305
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Four pages mounted together with two pages (left and right) of silhouettes in three rows cut from white cardboard and mounted on a single sheet of black. The second sheet from the right includes a silhouette in profileAt the top of the sheet, the Duke of Grafton; in the middle the Duchess of Grafton; at the bottom, Voltaire
- Description:
- Jean Huber (1721-1786), Swiss silhouette artist., The silhouette of the Duchess of Grafton with a child in a cradle to her left, annotated in Horace Walpole's hand: "Anne Duchess of Grafton cut at Geneva by Monsieur Hubert [sic] 1762"., Possibly the silhouette sent to Walpole 1772 Nov. 15. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's Correspondence, volume 5, pages 439., and Four works matted together: Jean Huber's Découpage with three silhouettes; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage in the manner of Monsieur Huber; Collage of Walpoliana; Lady Catherine Hamilton's, Découpage with women, children, and dancers.
- Subject (Name):
- Grafton, Augustus Henry Fitzroy, Duke of, 1735-1811, Upper Ossory, Anne Liddell Fitzpatrick, Countess of, d.1804., and Voltaire, 1694-1778
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Découpage with silhouettes of the Duke of Grafton, the Duchess of Grafton, and Voltaire] [art original].