"Admire a lobster or cabbage in a market piece" [art original]
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16704360
Description
- Title
- "Admire a lobster or cabbage in a market piece" [art original]
- Creator
- Cronin, David Edward, 1839-1925, artist
- Published / Created
- [1885]
- Publication Place
- New York?
- Abstract
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A drawing with two images: the circular image on top shows three women and a man in a picture gallery, their backs to the viewer, discussing a painting on the wall. Below, separated by an image of two feathers, is a rectangular, framed still life with a lobster on a plate surrounded by a headless game bird, a jug, a pitcher, and vegetables
- Description
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Title written below image. From a quotation from Horace Walpole's letter to 25 March 1761 written from Houghton: A party arrived, just as I did, to see the house, a man and three women in riding-dresses, and they rode post through the apartments. I could not hurry before them fast enough; they were not so long in seeing for the first time, as I could have been in one room, to examine what I knew by heart. I remember formerly being often diverted with this kind of seers; they come, ask what such a room is called, in which Sir Robert lay, write it down, admire a lobster or a cabbage in a market-piece, dispute whether the last room was green or purple, and then hurry to the inn for fear the fish should be overdressed.
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 68.
Bound in as page 144 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 25.5 x 18 cm, on sheet 38.5 x 28 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 225 884S Copy 2
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Still life drawings
Watercolors American 19th century - Material
- watercolor ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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England
Norfolk. - Subject (Topic)
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Private art collections
Lobsters - Subjects
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Private art collections > England > Norfolk
Lobsters
American > 19th century
Borden, Matthew C. D. (Matthew Chaloner Durfee), 1842-1912 > Ownership
Breaker, William D. > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- 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, "Admire a Lobster or Cabbage in a Market Piece". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13690019
- Object ID (OID)
- 16704360
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