<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The castle of Otranto [art original].</dc:title><dc:creator>Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist</dc:creator><dc:date>[not after 1824]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>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</dc:description><dc:description>Title written in ink below image.</dc:description><dc:description>Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>