The shell bench [graphic]

Description

Title: The shell bench [graphic]
Creator: Morris, Thomas, approximately 1750-approximately 1811, printmaker
Contributor: Bentley, R. 1708-1782, designer.
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
Published / Created: [ca. 1784]
Publication Place: Strawberry-Hill
Publisher: Printed by Thomas Kirgate
Abstract: A print of the bench in the shape of a shell, carved in oak from a design by Richard Bentley for Horace Walpole, that was on the grounds of his Strawberry Hill estate in Twickenham
Description: Title etched below image.
First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Mounted on page 177 of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
1 print : etching with engraving on laid paper ; sheet 20.1 x 19 cm.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Sabin; August 1927. Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Extent: 1 print : plate mark 20.3 x 20 cm
Language: English

Genre: Book illustrations
Etchings England London 1784
Material: etching with engraving ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Benches
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Benches
England > London > 1784
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

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