[A small landscape with a church] [art original].

Description

Title: [A small landscape with a church] [art original].
Creator: Bunbury, Henry William, 1750-1811, artist
Published / Created: [1765?]
Publication Place: England
Abstract: Country view with a church at center, its grounds enclosed by a fence with a gate. A tree is seen in the foreground on the right; smaller bushes surround the church on the left. A windmill and a small building sit atop a hill in the distance
Description: Title and date from local card catalog record.
Attribution to Bunbury based on inclusion of the drawing in a volume of the artist's work.
Mounted with eleven other drawings on page 2 in volume 1 of: Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 50, to H.G. Bohn, £7.7.0 [London, 733]; from an undergraduate at King's College, through Scribner's, May 1952, to W.S. Lewis, $225.
Extent: 1 drawing : sheet 61 x 87 mm
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: Folio 49 3563 v.1 (Oversize)
Collection Title: Volume 1, page 2. Etchings by Henry William Bunbury, Esq. and after his designs.
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, collector.
Collection Date: [Strawberry Hill], [between 1765 and 1792]

Genre: Landscape drawings
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Ink drawings British 18th century
Material: pen and ink on brown laid paper ;
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Topic): Churches
Trees
Fences
Gates
Windmills
Subjects: Churches
Trees
Fences
Gates
Windmills
British > 18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access: Public
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Citation: Henry William Bunbury, A Small Landscape with a Church. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.