View of Les Rochers, the country house of Madame de Sevigné, in Britagne [art original]
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Description
- Title
- View of Les Rochers, the country house of Madame de Sevigné, in Britagne [art original]
- Creator
- Ponsonby, Miss, artist
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1790]
- Publication Place
- Twickenham
- Abstract
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Two wash drawings, both oval views, of Château des Rochers-Sévigné. In the image on the left the road leading to chateau is on at right, with trees on the left. The image on the right depicts the chateau from the opposite side, with three paths in the foreground leading to a garden. An engraved portrait (12.7 x 7 cm) of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de Longueville, is mounted at center of sheet between the two drawings (see separate record).
- Description
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Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image.
Copied from the drawing, done on the spot by Mr. Hinchliffe in 1786, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast-Room at Strawberry Hill.
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 250 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
- 2 drawings : image 10.9 x 10 cm and image 11.1 x 9 cm, on sheet 23.2 x 33 cm
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Pictorial works
Views
Wash drawings British 18th century - Material
- gray wash with wash-line borders ; and wove paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Geographic)
- Vitré (France : District)
- Subject (Name)
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Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Estates
Houses - Subjects
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Sévigné, Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de, 1626-1696 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Vitré (France : District) > Pictorial works
Estates
Houses
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
- Miss Ponsonby, View of Les Rochers, the Country House of Madame de Sevigné, in Britagne. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 13617817
- Object ID (OID)
- 16824683
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