The castle of Otranto [art original].

Description

Title: The castle of Otranto [art original].
Creator: Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
Contributor: Reveley, Willey, -1799, artist.
Published / Created: [not after 1824]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Wash drawing of a castle, with two figures in the left foreground and a low wall extending towards the viewer in the right foreground; a cloud-filled sky completes the top half of the image
Description: Title written in ink below image.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Probably copied from the wash drawing by Willey Reveley of the real-life Castle of Otranto; that drawing was kept by Horace Walpole in the Small Closet at Strawberry Hill.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 227 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.
Provenance: Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Extent: 1 drawing : image 10.8 x 16.2, on sheet 12.7 x 18 cm
Language: English

Genre: Views
Wash drawings British 19th century
Material: gray wash ; and wove paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Geographic): Otranto (Italy)
Italy
Otranto.
Subject (Topic): Buildings, structures, etc
Castles & palaces
Subjects: Otranto (Italy) > Buildings, structures, etc
Castles & palaces > Italy > Otranto
British > 19th century
Bawtree, William, 1744-1824 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: G.P. Harding, The Castle of Otranto. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.