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Acquisition
Fairfax Murray Gift, 1911
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Accession number
DPG567
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Artist
Charles Jervas
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Date
c.1718
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Dimensions
127 x 103.8 cm
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Materials
Oil on canvas
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Notes
Adopted by The Friends of Dulwich Picture Gallery, 2008
Dorothy Walpole (1686-1726) was the sister of Sir Robert Walpole, the father of Horace Walpole. She married Charles, 2nd Viscount Townshend of Raynham in 1713. The coat-of-arms is that of Townshend impaling Walpole. It, along with the inscription, was probably added by Horace Walpole when the picture hung in his gothic-revival villa Strawberry Hill. The sitter wears Turkish-style dress of a kind fashionable from c.1718.
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