[Strawberry Hill, south front] [art original].
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Description
- Title
- [Strawberry Hill, south front] [art original].
- Alternative Title
- South view of Strawberry Hill
- Creator
- Barrow, Joseph Charles, artist
- Published / Created
- [approximately 1789]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham
- Abstract
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Watercolor drawing of the front of Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham, as viewed from the south across a lawn dotted with trees. Several figures are seen in the middle distance among the tree trunks; one figure pushes a wheelbarrow, another sweeps the path leading to the house. Foliage fills the top half of the image
- Description
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Title devised by curator.
Attribution to J.C. Barrow from local catalog card.
Date of production based on that of two similar drawings, both signed "I.C. Barrow 1789", mounted in the same volume.
Mounted on page 6 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 21.8 x 19 cm, on sheet 23.3 x 20 cm
- Language
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No linguistic content
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Views
Watercolors British 18th century - Material
- watercolor ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Twickenham (London, England)
- Subject (Name)
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings
Estates - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Twickenham (London, England) > Buildings, structures, etc
Dwellings
Estates
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
- Joseph Charles Barrow, Strawberry Hill, South Front. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13399524
- Object ID (OID)
- 16732894
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