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- Creator:
- Worlidge, T. (Thomas), 1700-1766, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [between 1757 and 1766]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Ninon de L'Enclos, half-length, three-quarter to right, looking towards the viewer, with pearl necklace, low-necked gown with bejewelled brooches, strap over her right shoulder; in oval frame with ribbons, curtain, flowers, lettered cartouche below."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched within cartouche at bottom of plate., Plate signed with printmaker Thomas Worlidge's monogram in upper right corner., After the portrait probably painted by Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder. See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 31, p. 6, note 2., Date range for publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: R,6.174., Original painting was kept by Horace Walpole in the Great North Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on page 206 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., 1 print : etching with drypoint on laid paper ; sheet 16.3 x 9.7 cm., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Lenclos, Ninon de, 1620-1705, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Ninon de Lenclos from an original picture given by herself to the Countess of Sandwich and by the present Earl of Sandwich to Mr. Walpole, 1757 / [graphic]