[Curfeu or couvre-feu in the Library] [art original].Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist[approximately 1790]zxxPair of wash drawings of the curfew, or couvre-feu, from Mr. Gostling's collection that was kept by Horace Walpole in the fireplace of the Library at Strawberry Hill. The drawing on the left shows the object with the opening facing towards the viewer; the drawing on the right shows the opening turned to the right, allowing some of the decoration on the side to be seenTitle devised by curator.Attribution to John Carter from local catalog card.Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen.Mounted together on page 98 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13.For further information, consult library staff.