[Portrait of George Robins sitting at a table] [art original]Bell, E., artist[ca. 1842]engThe auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842Title devised by cataloger.Signed in lower left corner with the initials of artist E. Bell.Date of production based on the 1842 publication date of the Strawberry Hill sale catalogue, into which this drawing was inserted as an illustration.Mounted with a clipped facsimile signature of George Robins, a clipping about Robins having "assumed for his throne the very ancient chair of oak once pertaining to Glastonbury Abbey", and another clipping about the chair itself.Mounted on page 65 in an extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill.