Two Kittens

Strawberry Hill ID: sh-000026
1784
Damer, Anne Seymour (English sculptor, 1749-1828)


Sculpture
Terracotta
Private Collection

Strawberry Hill History

Location: Green Closet

1784 Description: Curiosities added: Two kittens in marble, by Mrs. Damer. (93)

Sale Text: Two kittens sculptured in marble, on a stand, by Lady Anne Damer, enclosed in a glass case.

Object History

Provenance: Horace Walpole; 1842, May 12, Strawberry Hill Sale, Day 16, Lot 21 bt Colonel Damer, £20.9.6; [Private Collection].

Exhibition History: "Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill." Orleans House Gallery. Twickenham, England. 9/20/1980-12/7/1980. No. 67.

Bibliography: Percy Noble, Anne Seymour Damer, a Woman of Art and Fashion, 1748-1828 (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co., Ltd., 1908), 81.
Country Life, CXIII, 1953, p.575.
HW Corres 12:274.
OHG 67