Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire [art original]Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist[1793]engA view of Newstead Abbey as seen from the front beyond the surrounding stone wall. Two boys, one leaning on the wall the other sitting on it, watch as a coach pulls around the circular drive, in the center of which stands a fountainTitle and artist from ms. note on verso in Horace Walpole's hand.Inscribed by artist in lower right corner of image: "J.C. Barrow."Ms. note in pencil, in an unidentified hand, on mount below image: "In the summer of 1798, B. [i.e. Byron] took possession of Newstead Abbey. Drawing was bought at the sale of Horace Walpole's collection, Strawberry Hill, in the year 1842."Probably part of the collection sold at the StrawberryHill sale, viii, 154, dispersed as described in A.T. Hazen's Catalogue of Horace Walpole's library, no. 3678.Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.