South view of the Castle of Otranto with the Acroceraunian Mountains of Epirus in the distance copied from a drawing made in March 1785 by Mr. Reveley, given to Mr. Walpole by Lady Craven. [art original]

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Lewis Walpole Library > South view of the Castle of Otranto with the Acroceraunian Mountains of Epirus in the distance copied from a drawing made in March 1785 by Mr. Reveley, given to Mr. Walpole by Lady Craven. [art original]

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Description

Title: South view of the Castle of Otranto with the Acroceraunian Mountains of Epirus in the distance copied from a drawing made in March 1785 by Mr. Reveley, given to Mr. Walpole by Lady Craven. [art original]
Creator: Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
Contributor: Reveley, Willey, -1799, artist.
Published / Created: [approximately 1790]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Watercolor drawing of the real-life Castle of Otranto in Italy. The gray structure is seen in the middle distance beyond a low stone wall, one branch of which extends towards the viewer in the right foreground. Blue-tinted mountains are visible in the far distance on either side of the castle. A green lawn occupies the rest of the foreground; a blue sky strewn with white clouds completes the top half of the image
Description: Title written in ink below image.
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.
The original drawing by Willey Reveley, of which this is a copy, was kept by Horace Walpole in the Small Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Mounted on page 255 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.
Provenance: Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 12.2 x 22 cm, on sheet 16.3 x 26 cm
Language: English

Collection Information

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 33 30 Copy 11

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre: Views
Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink, gray wash and watercolor with wash-line border ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Otranto (Italy)
Italy
Otranto.
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Buildings, structures, etc
Castles & palaces
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Otranto (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc
Castles & palaces > Italy > Otranto
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > 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: John Carter, South View of the Castle of Otranto with the Acroceraunian Mountains of Epirus in the Distance. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record: 13618481
Object ID (OID): 16729822