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• Author/Creator:Buck, Adam, 1759-1833, artist.
  
• Title:[Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke] [art original] / Adam Buck.
  
• Production:London, 1804.
  
• Physical Description:1 drawing : pencil, watercolor and gouache ; sheet 38.5 x 28.9 cm, mounted to 44 x 34 cm
  

• Yale Holdings

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  • Location:LEWIS WALPOLE LIBRARY, Prints and Drawings (Non-Circ)
    Request for Use in the Lewis Walpole Library
    
    
  • Call Number: Drawings B922 no. 1 Box D200
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Notes:Removed from frame, which is stored separately in LSF Bin 14.
    
  •   Digital version
    

   
• Medium:gold and wash-line mount.
  
• Notes:Title devised by cataloger.
  Signed and dated by the artist in lower left: Adam Buck, London 1804.
  Identity of the sitter based on the known partronage of Adam Buck by both Prince Frederick, Duke of York and Albany, and his mistress Mary Anne Clarke. In addition, there exist other examples of similar portraits of Clarke by Buck.
  Purchased from Jarndyce, November 2022.
  
• Summary:Full-length portrait of a woman, likely to be Mary Anne Clarke, wearing a white neoclassical dress and standing on a balcony with a curtain drapped from the left corner.
  
• Format:Visual Material
• Cite as:Adam Buck, Portrait of Mary Anne Clarke. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:Clarke, Mary Anne, 1776?-1852, depicted.
  
• Genre/Form:Portrait drawings.
  Pencil drawings.
  Watercolors.
  Gouaches.