"The Lord of the Manor" [art original]

Description

Title: "The Lord of the Manor" [art original]
Creator: Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
Published / Created: [1885]
Publication Place: New York?
Abstract: View of a large house, perhaps meant to be Houghton Hall, rising from a hill in the middle distance. Trees and thick undergrowth obscure the lower floors of the house and provide a green backdrop for an ornate staircase in the foreground, upon which a man with a walking stick stands
Description: Title written below image.
Signed and dated by the artist in lower right corner of image.
Place of production inferred from artist's city of residence during this time period.
Page reference for quotation written below title: Page 67.
Bound in as page 141 in volume 3 of M.C.D. Borden's extensively extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole and his world / edited by L. B. Seeley ... London : Seeley, Jackson, and Halliday, 1884.
Provenance: Borden Sale, American Art Gallery, 17-19 February 1913, lot 812. Rains Galleries, New York, NY, 27 November 1935 (W.D. Breaker sale), lot 688, bought in by Breaker. Purchased from William D. Breaker (through G.A. Baker) by W.S. Lewis, 1939.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 25.6 x 18 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Watercolors American 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Dwellings
Estates
Subjects: Dwellings
Estates
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership

Access: Public
Rights: The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
Citation: David Edward Cronin, "The Lord of the Manor". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.