View of Richmond Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772 [art original]

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Title: View of Richmond Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772 [art original]
Alternative Title: View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house from the terrass at Strawberry Hill, 1772
Creator: Pars, William, 1742-1782, artist
Published / Created: [1772]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: View of the trees and field leading down to the Thames River. In the distance is Richmond Hill and Pope's home on the left, as seen from the terrace of Horace Walpole's villa, Strawberry Hill. In the foreground, a cowman sits against the nearest tree as two cows lay in the grass, a third cow stands nearby
Description: Title, date and artist information written in ink below image, in an unidentified hand.
Inscribed by Horace Walpole on the verso: View of Richmond-hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's house, from the terrass at Strawberry-hill, by Mr. Pars 1772.
Provenance: Sold at the Strawberry Hill, London Sale lot 1247 bought by William Knight, £3.3.0 i.a. Sold at the Walker's Galleries, London to W.S. Lewis, August, 1931, £63. Sold at the Strawberry Hill sale, day viii, lot 154.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 37.5 x 51 cm, on sheet 44.8 x 58.9 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Landscape drawings
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: watercolor with pen and ink ; and laid paper on wash-line mount.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): England
Twickenham.
Twickenham (London, England)
Subject (Name): Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Buildings, structures, etc
Estates
Subjects: Pope, Alexander, 1688-1744 > Homes and haunts > England > Twickenham
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Twickenham (London, England) > Buildings, structures, etc
Estates
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: William Pars, View of Richmond-Hill, Twickenham, and Mr. Pope's House from the Terrace at Strawberry Hill, 1772. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.