[The shrine inside the Chapel] [art original].

Description

Title: [The shrine inside the Chapel] [art original].
Creator: Bawtree, William, 1744-1824, artist
Contributor: Cavallini, Pietro, active 13th century-14th century, designer.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Drawing depicting the shrine designed by Pietro Cavallini, brought to the chapel at Strawberry Hill from Rome in 1768. Four twisted Corinthian columns are at the base
Description: Title devised by curator.
Probably drawn by William Bawtree, perhaps in preparation for a similar engraving he published in 1798. For a description of the engraving, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,2.199. For a reproduction of the engraving, see: Walpole, H. Strawberry Hill accounts ... Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1927, opposite page 128.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 200 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 25.3 x 20 cm
Language: No linguistic content

Genre: Ink drawings British 19th century
Watercolors British 19th century
Material: pen and ink and watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Shrines
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Shrines
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: William Bawtree, The Shrine Inside the Chapel. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.