[Bookplate] [art original].

Description

Title: [Bookplate] [art original].
Creator: Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810, artist
Published / Created: [not after 1810]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Two images, the bottom of which is a saracen's head in profile above a banner with the Walpole motto "Fari quae sentiat". Above, an armorial shield surmounted by the head of a black man with a kerchief around his head and decorated with flags and a cannon protrude from its sides; branches extend outward from the pile of dirt at the base of the shield, on which cannon balls and a drum sit
Description: Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; attribution to Thomas Kirgate from note in pencil on mounting page: "Evidently drawn by his printer Jos.[?] Kirgate."
Date of production based on artist's death date.
Mounted on page 'g' in an extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. Fugitive pieces in verse and prose. [Twickenham] : Printed at Strawberry-Hill, 1758.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Thomas Kirgate and E.V. Utterson, with their manuscript notes in the volume and with Utterson's armorial bookplate. Sold by King and Lochée, 4 December 1810 (Kirgate Sale), lot 350, to Utterson; later sold at Sotheby's, 27 April 1852 (Utterson Sale), lot 1829. Sold again at Sotheby's, 15 December 1941 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 140, to Maggs for W.S. Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 5.6 x 7 cm, mounted to 18.7 x 11 cm
Language: English

Genre: Watercolors British 19th century
Material: watercolor ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Bookplates
Coats of arms
Subjects: Bookplates
Coats of arms
British > 19th century
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810 > Ownership
Utterson, Edward Vernon, 1775 or 1776-1856 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Thomas Kirgate, Bookplate. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.