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1. Kitty Clive's house at Strawberry Hill [art original].
- Creator:
- Smith, Charles John, 1803-1838, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1836]
- Call Number:
- 485 842 C76 VI Copy 5
- Collection Title:
- Page 5. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's. Trees flank the house on either side; a group of women and children stand on the path in the right foreground
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image, in a contemporary hand., Artist and date of production from note in ink on mounting sheet: This is the original drawing by Charles John Smith from which he engraved the plate for Murray's Johnsoniana published in 1836, p. 177., and Mounted on page 5 in T. Crofton Croker's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Dwellings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Kitty Clive's house at Strawberry Hill [art original].
2. Mrs. Clives house near Twickenham [art original].
- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1824]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of Little Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, home to Mrs. Clive in the 1780s and then to Agnes and Mary Berry sometime after 1791. The white house has ivy growing up its side and is flanked by trees; abundant shrubbery completes the foreground
- Description:
- Title written in ink below image., Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 205 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 (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, and Houses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clives house near Twickenham [art original].
3. Miss Rafter in the character of Phillida [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [between 1729 and 1800]
- Call Number:
- Portraits C642 no. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Kitty Clive when Miss Raftor, as the shepherdess from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); three-quarter length half-turned away from the viewer, looking over her shoulder towards the viewer, wearing a loose gown, hair up, holding a wreath above the head of a young man who leans in to kiss her from left, her left hand on his arm, his right hand on her waist, left arm around her back, holding hat, in a forest with sheep."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., Verse below image: "In native Beauty clad without disguise ... And live in Pleasures which alternate spring.", Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1902,1011.6963., Note from British Museum online catalogue regarding artist: "Schalken died 5 years before Catherine Clive was born: this print is simliar to a mezzotint by Faber II after Bleeck (Chaloner Smith 85), and to a mezzotint by Faber inscribed with 'G Schliecken' as the painter's name (Russell 85a), which may have been the source for the erroneous inscription.", and Numbered in ms. at top left of verso: Mint. 5-3648.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Miss Rafter in the character of Phillida [graphic]
4. Urn erected in the garden at Cliveden near Twickenham, 1792 [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1797]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Drawing of the monument to the memory of Kitty Clive that was erected by Horace Walpole at Little Strawberry Hill. The monument consists of an urn sitting upon a pedestal that bears the inscription: Ye smiles and jests still hover round; this is mirths consecrated ground; here lived the laughter loving dame, a matchless actress, Clive her name; the Comic Muse with her retired, and shed a tear when she expired. H.W.
- Description:
- Title from note in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand., Unsigned; artist unidentified., Date of production based on death date of Horace Walpole, whose manuscript annotation is present., and Mounted on page 194 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785. and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections, Monuments & memorials, and Urns
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Urn erected in the garden at Cliveden near Twickenham, 1792 [art original].
5. North east view of the above [Cliveden] [art original].
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1792?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill as viewed from the northeast. The house at center is mostly obscured by trees, with a lawn extending from the front of the house to the left. Caged hedges with hedge arches border a path on the near side of the lawn, and two women walk on the path towards the house. A man pushing a wheelbarrow stands in the right foreground, and next to him sits a girl with a basket of flowers
- Alternative Title:
- Northeast view of the above
- Description:
- Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page; "the above" in title refers to the drawing entited Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill ..., which is mounted above this drawing on the same page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., Date based on that of the drawing mounted above this drawing on the same page., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > North east view of the above [Cliveden] [art original].
6. Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill, Twickenham, formerly the villa of Mrs. Catherine Clive the comedian, and now of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry, 1792 [art original].
- Creator:
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1792]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Watercolor drawing of Little Strawberry Hill, which was home to the actress Kitty Clive in the 1780's and then to Mary and Agnes Berry after 1791. Trees flank either side of the house and a hedgerow separates the structure from the figures in the foreground. A man works in the garden on the left while a gentleman and lady walk arm in arm in the center of the image
- Description:
- Titled in Thomas Kirgate's hand below image on mounting page., Attribution to Joseph Charles Barrow from local catalog card., and Mounted on page 5 (formerly D) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Berry, Mary, 1763-1852, and Berry, Agnes, 1764-1852
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts, Buildings, structures, etc, Dwellings, and Estates
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Cliveden near Strawberry-Hill, Twickenham, formerly the villa of Mrs. Catherine Clive the comedian, and now of Miss Mary and Miss Agnes Berry, 1792 [art original].
7. [Portrait of Kitty Clive] [art original].
- Published / Created:
- [before 1785?]
- Call Number:
- Drawings Un58 no. 83 Framed, shelved in Object Room Bin 6
- Image Count:
- 1
- Abstract:
- Portrait of Kitty Clive
- Alternative Title:
- Catherine Raftor Clive and Mrs. Clive
- Description:
- Title devised by curator., Artist unidentified., Engraved British portraits refers to the engraving of this image by C. Mosley., and No. 33 in the Catalogue of Framed Pictures in the Lewis Walpole Library. For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
- Subject (Topic):
- Actresses, British, and Women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of Kitty Clive] [art original].
8. Mrs. Clive's monument erected by the late Lord Orford in Mr. Berry's garden at Twickenham [art original].
- Creator:
- Farington, Joseph, 1747-1821, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1785]
- Call Number:
- SH Views F226 no. 2+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- A drawing of the monument to Mrs. Clive int he garden of Mr. Berry in Twickenham, set in a grove. On the base is Horace Walpole's five-line epitaph
- Alternative Title:
- Horace Walpole's memorial to Kitty Clive
- Description:
- Title written below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand., Questionable attribution to Joseph Farington., and With Horace Walpole's epitaph engraved on the base: "Ye smiles & jests still hover round! This is Mirth's consecrated ground: ..." written after her visit to Strawberry Hill in 1774. (See Yale edition of Horace Walpole's correspondence, v. 2 , p. 374-5.)
- Subject (Geographic):
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785
- Subject (Topic):
- Death and burial, Memorials, Monuments & memorials, and Buildings, structures, etc
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive's monument erected by the late Lord Orford in Mr. Berry's garden at Twickenham [art original].
9. Mrs. Clive in the character of Mrs. Heidelberg done from an original picture of the same size in the possession of Her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 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., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive in the character of Mrs. Heidelberg done from an original picture of the same size in the possession of Her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland. [graphic]
10. Mrs. Clive in the character of Mrs. Heidelberg done from an original picture of the same size in the possession of Her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland. [graphic]
- Creator:
- Grignion, Charles, 1721-1810, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character from Colman and Garrick's 'The Clandestine Marriage'; full-length, standing three-quarters to left with head in profile, right hand gathering apron, left by her side with forefinger pointing downward, wearing richly trimmed panniered dress and wide-brimmed hat with trailing ribbon, hair worn high."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Printmaker from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.184., Plate from: Dramatic characters, or Different portraits of the English stage. London : R. Sayer and J. Smith, 1770., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Plate numbered "14" in lower right corner., Mounted on page 235 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., Mounted beside a clipping (9.1 x 6.5 cm) from a newspaper or magazine describing the marble monument at Twickenham Church on which verses eulogizing Mrs. Clive were written., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Printed for R. Sayer, No. 53 in Fleet Street, & J. Smith, No. 35 Cheapside
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,, Garrick, David, 1717-1779., Colman, George, 1732-1794., and Northumberland, Elizabeth Seymour Percy, Duchess of, 1716-1776
- Subject (Topic):
- Art collections and Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive in the character of Mrs. Heidelberg done from an original picture of the same size in the possession of Her Grace the Dutchess of Northumberland. [graphic]
11. Mrs. Heidelberg Baron Otranto. [graphic]
- Published / Created:
- [1769]
- Call Number:
- 769.12.00.06
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Two head-and-shoulder portraits in separate ornamental oval frames, numbered respectively No. XXXIV and No. XXXV, of actress Kitty Clive and Horace Walpole
- Alternative Title:
- Baron Otranto
- Description:
- Titles etched below images. and Plate from: "Histories of the tête-à-tête annexed" in Town and country magazine. London : Printed for A. Hamilton, Jr., v. 1 (1769), p. 617.
- Publisher:
- A. Hamilton
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, and Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Heidelberg Baron Otranto. [graphic]
12. The fair songster [graphic]
- Creator:
- Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1762]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 4
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Mrs. Clive : from the picture at Strawberry Hill and Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ...
- Description:
- Title engraved below image, on either side of verses., Alternative title from later state; see Russell., After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., State from: Russell, C.E. English Mezzotint portraits and their states., Date "1735" has been removed and title and publication line have been added to the plate; these changes constitute the second state according to Smith, amended to the fourth state by Russell., Date of publication based on publisher's street address. See British Museum online catalogue., Four lines of verse engraved below image: Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ..., Imperfect; sheet trimmed to plate mark on bottom edge and imprint statement has been erased. Imprint statement supplied from impression in the British Museum, registration no.: K,58.180., Plate numbered "319" in lower left corner., and Mounted on page 220 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.
- Publisher:
- Printed for C. Bowles in St. Pauls Church Yard
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The fair songster [graphic]
13. Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, 1750.
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Mounted on page 76 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 stipple on laid paper ; sheet 32.9 x 22 cm., Imperfect; sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of printmaker's signature, imprint statement, and price from bottom edge., Contemporary annotation in pencil in lower left corner: Worlidge delin., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
14. Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
- Creator:
- Mosley, Charles, approximately 1720-approximately 1770, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- according to act of Parliament, 1750.
- Call Number:
- Portraits C642 no. 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive in the character of Mrs Riot (the 'Fine Lady') in Garrick's 'Lethe'; three-quarters to left, looking to front, carrying a lapdog in her right arm, which she rests on the panniers of her skirts, her left hand catching the fabric of her dress; in wooded landscape by the riverside, boating party behind at left."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title etched below image., Artist from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.185., Two lines of text below title: Shew me to the pump room then, fellow; where's the company, I die in solitude &c., "Price 6 d."--Following imprint statement., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and Window mounted to 36.7 x 25.2 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Garrick, David, 1717-1779.
- Subject (Topic):
- Theatrical productions
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive in the character of the fine lady in Lethe [graphic]
15. The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
- Published / Created:
- [29 January 1746]
- Call Number:
- 746.01.29.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Drury Lane in an uproar
- Description:
- Caption title in letterpress below image., Letterpress broadside song illustrated with etching (design 15.5 x 25 cm) at top of sheet. Title on plate: "Totus mundus agit histrionem." Signed in lower right corner: Tho. Booth sculp., Dated by Stephens 1725 from the British Museum impression that lacks the song and imprint., Sheet trimmed close to design and letterpress resulting in minor loss of title., "To the tune of Gossip Joan.", Sixteen stanzas of song in three columns below title: Ye peers, ye cits and beaux who haunt pit, box and gall'ry ..., Describes a fight between two actresses, Kitty Clive and Peg Woffington, which took place in 1746 when Henry IV was performed at Drury Lane, as related by Thomas Davies in his Dramatic miscellanies, 1784, v. 1, p. 231-3. The subjects in the print were identified by Horace Walpole (1717-1797) in his copy of Davies' Miscellanies., Temporary local subject terms: Theaters: Green Room, Drury Lane -- Actors: Owen MacSwinney and James Raftor., and Mounted to 38 x 27 cm.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd persuant to act of Parliament, Jan. 29, 1746, by G. Foster on Ludgate-Hill, and sold at the print and pamphlet shop in London and Westminster
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, and Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Green Room scuffle, or, Drury Lane in an uproar
16. The theatrical contest 1743 [graphic].
- Published / Created:
- [24 October 1743]
- Call Number:
- 743.10.24.01+
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Description:
- Title from caption above image., Temporary local subject terms: London: Covent Garden Piazza -- Pools -- Harlequin -- Playbills -- Signs: "Coffee tea" -- Petitions: petition of actors' grievances, 1743 -- Wages in theater: dispute over wages between actors and managers -- Inflated bladders with signs of characters in plays -- Henry Giffard, d. 1743 -- Richard Winstone, d. 1787 -- Turbutt, d.1740 -- Cashill or Cashel, d. 1748., and Lower left corner of sheet missing.
- Publisher:
- Publish'd according to act of Parliament, Octobr. 24th 1743 by G. Foster at the White Horse on Ludgate Hill
- Subject (Name):
- Grafton, Charles Fitzroy, 2nd Duke of, 1683-1757, Arthur, John, 1708?-1772, Fleetwood, Charles Gerard, active 1733-1744, Rich, John, 1692-1761, Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, Garrick, David, 1717-1779, Macklin, Charles, 1697?-1797, Ryan, Lacy, 1694?-1760, Barry, Spranger, 1719-1777, Dunstall, John, 1717-1778, Woffington, Margaret, -1760, Pritchard, Hannah, 1711-1768, Covent Garden (London, England), and Covent Garden Market (Westminster, London, England),
- Subject (Topic):
- City & town life, Occupations, Produce stands, Sedan chairs, and Wheelbarrows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The theatrical contest 1743 [graphic].
17. Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... [graphic]
- Creator:
- Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1735]
- Call Number:
- Folio 49 3582 (Oversize)
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive; three-quarter length seated directed to left, a book of music held open in her lap, right elbow resting on velvet cushion on a table beside her, wearing a gown with a bow at the breast, hair up with a coil over left shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
- Alternative Title:
- Fair songster and Mrs. Clive : from the picture at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title from verses engraved below image., Alternative titles from later states; see Russell., After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., State from Russell., Date "1735" following printmaker's signature has been removed from plate; see description of first state in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Sheet trimmed to plate mark leaving thread margins., Verses below image continue: ... heightens our joys, suspends our fiercest pains, this each one proves who hears they heavnly strains., Tipped in at page 195 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12., and Sitter identified as "Mrs. Clive" in lower margin, in brown ink in a contemporary hand.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... [graphic]
18. The celebrated Mrs. Clive, late Miss Raftor in the character of Philida [graphic]
- Creator:
- Faber, John, 1695?-1756, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [1734]
- Call Number:
- Folio 75 P839 800 v. 1 (Oversize)
- Collection Title:
- Portraits of ladies in mezzotint.
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of the actress Kitty Clive as the character Phillida from Cibber's 'Damon and Phillida' (previously 'Love in a Riddle'); in rural setting with shepherd approaching at left with his arm around her waist; three-quarter length slightly to left, eyes to front, right hand seeming to restrain the shepherd, left raised to her shoulder."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description:
- Title from caption below image., State and artist from: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: K,58.181., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Mounted on leaf numbered 36 in an album of 49 prints: sheet 60 x 47 cm., and Bound in full red levant by Lloyd Wallis & Lloyd. For further information consult library staff.
- Publisher:
- Sold by J. Faber at [the] Golden Head in Bloomsbury Square Holbourn
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785,
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The celebrated Mrs. Clive, late Miss Raftor in the character of Philida [graphic]
