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1. 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]
2. 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]
3. 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].
4. 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]
5. 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]
6. 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].
7. 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]
8. 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]
9. 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].
