[Ossuarium - 3 square, 1 round] [art original].Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist[approximately 1790]zxxWash drawing divided by ink lines into four quadrants, each of which contains a depiction of an ossuarium kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill. The upper left quadrant contains a round ossuarium decorated with a hunting scene on the side and a bird on the cover; the other three quadrants contain square ossuaria with Latin inscriptions and various decorationsTitle 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 on page 105 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.