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- Creator:
- Van Haecken, Alexander, 1701-1757, printmaker
- Published / Created:
- [not before 1793]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- "Portrait of Catherine 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; after Joseph van Haecken; state after title and publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
- Alternative Title:
- Of all the arts that sooth the human breast, music (blest power) the sweetest is confest ... and Fair songster
- Description:
- Title from text engraved on either side of verses below image., Fifth and final state, with the former title "The fair songster" replaced and the publication line altered; see Russell., Publication date inferred from the date of partnership formed by Henry Carington Bowles and Carver after Carington Bowles's death in 1792. See: Plomer, H.R. Dictionaries of the printers and booksellers, page 31., Original date "1735" following printmaker's signature has been removed from plate; see description of the first state in: Smith, J.C. British mezzotinto portraits., After a painting by Jeremiah Davison that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Round Bedchamber at Strawberry Hill., 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., Plate numbered "319" in lower left corner., Window mounted to 45 x 31 cm., and Bound in after page 208 in volume 3 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of: A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
- Publisher:
- Printed for Bowles & Carver, 69, St Paul's Church Yard
- Subject (Name):
- Clive, Kitty, 1711-1785, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Mrs. Clive from the picture at Strawberry Hill / [graphic]