A view of Twickenham [graphic]
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Description
- Title
- A view of Twickenham [graphic]
- Creator
- Green, James, 1729-1759, printmaker
- Contributor
- Müntz, Jean-Henri, 1727-1798, artist.
- Published / Created
- [not before 1756]
- Publication Place
- London?
- Publisher
- publisher not identified
- Abstract
-
"View in Twickenham; two men fishing in river surrounded by reeds in foreground to right; trees and shrubbery on the left; grand houses fronting river running across centre of view."--British Museum online catalogue
- Description
-
Title engraved below image.
Names of the owners of the represented houses are engraved in lower margin above title: Lord Radnor's; Mr. Hudson's; Mr. Pope's now Sr. Wm. Stanhope's; Lady Ferrers's; Mrs. Backwell's.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Mounted on page 91 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.
1 print : etching and engraving on wove paper ; sheet 41.8 x 56.2 cm.
Annotation in pencil following title: Engrav'd from a private plate of Mr. Walpole's.
For further information, consult library staff. - Provenance
- Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire; August 1937. 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.
- Extent
- 1 print : sheet 41.9 x 57 cm
- Language
-
English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Pictorial works
Views
Engravings England London 1756
Etchings England London 1756 - Material
- etching and engraving ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
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Twickenham (London, England)
England
Twickenham. - Subject (Topic)
- Houses
- Subjects
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Twickenham (London, England) > Pictorial works
Houses > England > Twickenham
England > London > 1756
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership
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.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 13247368
- Object ID (OID)
- 16732982
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