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    • Author/Creator:Houbraken, Jacobus, 1698-1780, printmaker.
    • Title:Catherine Howard Queen of K. Henry VIII [graphic] / Jacobus Houbraken sculpsit Amst. ; Holben [sic] pinx.
    • Publication:[London] : [John and Paul Knapton], [1739]
    • Physical Description:1 print : engraving and etching ; sheet 36.4 x 23 cm

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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 4
      • Status:No information available 
      • Notes:Mounted on page 151 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.
        1 print : engraving and etching on laid paper ; sheet 16.9 x 15.5 cm.
        Imperfect; sheet trimmed closely around portrait with loss of the surrounding oval frame, the design below portrait, and all text.
      • Provenance:Spencer, ex dono Annie Burr Lewis; June 1933.
        Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
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      • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY (Non-Circulating)
        Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library

      • Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11
      • Status:No information available 
      • Notes:Mounted on page 174 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 : engraving and etching on wove paper ; sheet 35.9 x 21.9 cm.
        Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
        For further information, consult library staff.
      • Provenance:Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937.
        Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
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    • Medium:wove paper.
    • Notes:Title from text in image.
      Publisher and place of publication from the volume in which the print appeared.
      Date of publication from the British Museum online catalogue.
      Plate from: Birch, T. The heads of illustrious persons of Great Britain. London : John and Paul Knapton, MDCCXLIII-MDCCLI [1743-1751].
      Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
      "In the collection of Mr. Richardson"--Below image.
      Engraved after a painting that was afterwards acquired by Horace Walpole and kept in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
    • Summary:"Portrait of Catherine Howard; half length, turned to the right and looking towards the viewer, her hands clasped, wearing French hood edged with pearls, and pearl necklace; in oval frame, with curtain falling to the left, partly covering Catherine's decapitated head which is seen lying next to an axe on the ground to right; a Spirit with a half-extinguished torch by his side sits beside the head."--British Museum online catalogue.
    • Variant and related titles:Catherine Howard Queen of King Henry VIII
    • Format:Visual Material
    • References:Catalogue of engraved British portraits preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum, v. 1, page 362
    • Subjects:Catherine Howard, Queen, consort of Henry VIII, King of England, -1542, depicted.
      Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Bawtree, William, 1744-1824--Ownership.
      Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797--Ownership.
      Knight, William, -1847--Ownership.
      Bull, Richard, 1725-1806--Ownership.
      Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936--Ownership.
      Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944--Ownership.
    • Genre/Form:Book illustrations.
      Portrait prints.
      Engravings--England--London--1739.
      Etchings--England--London--1739.
    • Also listed under:Holbein, Hans, 1497?-1543, artist.
      John and Paul Knapton (Firm), publisher.
    Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/12792311