Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic]

Description

Title: Mr. Horace Walpole [graphic]
Creator: Pariset, D. P., active 1740-1783, printmaker
Contributor: Falconet, Peter, 1741-1791, artist, publisher.
Ryland, Bryer, & Co., publisher.
Published / Created: [between 1768 and 1783]
Publication Place: London
Publisher: Sold by P. Falconet, Broad Street, Carnaby Market, & Ryland, Bryer, & Co., Cornhill
Abstract: "Portrait of Horace Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, bust-length in profile to right, wearing wig, open coat, waistcoat, neckerchief and frill; in round frame in form of a miniature, with ribbon through ring at the top, and tablet below; after Falconet; state before publication line altered."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title etched in open letters on tablet below image.
Pariset worked for Ryland and later Falconet on a series of portraits of members of the Royal Academy. See the advertisement in the 'Mercure de France' of October 1783 (page 142).
Price following imprint: Pr. 2s.
Mounted opposite first half-title page in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
1 print : stipple engraving on laid paper ; sheet 21.1 x 14.1 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 152, to Thorpe, £11.0.6; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13219, for £21, and again in 1844; Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 21.7 x 15 cm, on sheet 29.5 x 23 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English