Elevation of a cottage for The Honble. Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill [art original].

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Title: Elevation of a cottage for The Honble. Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill [art original].
Alternative Title: Elevation of a Cottage for the Honorable Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill
Creator: Adam, Robert, 1728-1792, artist
Published / Created: [1766]
Publication Place: England
Description: Title at top of sheet, scale drawn in below image.
Artist's name inscribed by Horace Walpole, recto lower left corner: Robt Adam Architect 1766.
Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection.
Text from the 1842 Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole: (London Sale, Lot 1248): Ditto [drawings] Views of Strawberry Hill and of the Villa of Lady Diana Beauclerc at Twickenham, by J. Barrow, 1789, and 4 designs for a Cottage, etc. at Strawberry Hill, by Robert Adams, architect, 1767, etc."
Provenance: Horace Walpole; 1842, June 10, London Sale, Lot 1248 bt W. Knight, £1.19; 1938, July, Walter T. Spencer, bt W.S. Lewis; The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 33.4 x 50 cm, sheet 36.2 x 53 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
Architectural drawings
Watercolors British 18th century
Drawings
Material: watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Dwellings
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Dwellings
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms notes

Access: Public
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Citation: Robert Adam, Elevation of a Cottage for The Honble. Horace Walpole, near Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.