View of Strawberry Hill from the road to Teddington [art original]

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Title: View of Strawberry Hill from the road to Teddington [art original]
Creator: Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
Published / Created: [1781]
Publication Place: Twickenham
Abstract: Watercolor drawing of Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham. The house, mostly obscured by the surrounding trees, is visible in the distance. A fence separates the house from the lawn, on which a woman and a girl walk. In the left foreground are two cows, one standing and one lying down. Clouds fill the sky; a few birds fly above
Description: Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount: E.E. 1781.
Formerly laid in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: 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 12.
Provenance: Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 23.6 x 37 cm, mounted to 38.9 x 50 cm
Language: English

Genre: Pictorial works
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Ink drawings British 18th century
Watercolors British 18th century
Material: pen and ink and watercolor, with wash-line mount ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Dwellings
Estates
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Dwellings
Estates
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Edward Edwards, View of Strawberry Hill from the Road to Teddington. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.