[A silver chalice with rubies and diamonds] [art original].

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Title: [A silver chalice with rubies and diamonds] [art original].
Creator: Carter, John, 1748-1817, artist
Published / Created: [approximately 1790]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Drawing of the ornate chalice kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill. The side of the cup has several rectangular jewels inlaid around the image of an angel; the cover is decorated with images of animals and is topped with a female figure holding a flag
Description: Title 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 181 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 : sheet 39.5 x 25 cm
Language: English

Genre: Ink drawings British 18th century
Wash drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink, gray wash and watercolor ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Chalices
Subjects: Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Chalices
British > 18th century
Bull, Richard, 1725-1806 > Ownership
Curtis, Charles Constable, 1852-1936 > Ownership
Curtis, Edith Fanny Onslow, -1944 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: John Carter, A Silver Chalice with Rubies and Diamonds. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.