Inscription on verso, in ink: "Entrance of the villa at Strawberry Hill. E.E. 1781." Signed and dated lower right corner of image: "E.E. 1781". Numbered in pencil on verso: "No. J". Note in pencil in unknown hand: "The print of this in the Description, 1784 has slight differences: pot with shrub missing, includes more at right, + top. This is surely Edward's original watercolor for the famous print however." Formerly shelved as part of the SH Views collection. Edward Edwards (1738-1806), English artist, associate and teacher of perspective in the Royal Academy, London. Not in Manuscript Catalogue of 1763.
Provenance
This drawing is possibly one of a collection dispersed at the Strawberry Hill Sale, 1842, day viii, lot 154. Chewton Collection of Lord Waldegrave, to W.S. Lewis, 1948.
Extent
1 drawing : image 15.8 x 12 cm, on sheet 19.9 x 16 cm, mount 21.1 x 19 cm
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Citation
Edward Edwards, Entrance of the Villa at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library,Yale University.