[Strawberry-Hill] [graphic]

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Title: [Strawberry-Hill] [graphic]
Alternative Title: East front of Strawberry Hill, from the river
Creator: Wollaston, Charlton, 1733-1764, printmaker
Published / Created: 1754.
Publication Place: London?
Publisher: publisher not identified
Abstract: "Landscape; view of Strawberry Hill, a neo-gothic house in parkland, seen from a pool in the foreground, with a water-wheel on the left, a horseman on the far bank, sailing-boat on the right and cattle grazing in the field before the house."--British Museum online catalogue
Description: Title from note in brown ink below image, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Alternative title from Gascoigne.
Printmaker's monogrammatic initials etched below image in lower left; date etched below image in lower right.
Sheet trimmed to plate mark.
Provenance: Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 152, to Thorpe, £11.0.6; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13219, for £21, and again in 1844; Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375.
Extent: 1 print : sheet 11.4 x 16 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English

Repository: Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number: 49 2523
Collection Title: First leaf following title page. Description of the villa of Horace Walpole ...
Collection / Other Creator: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797.
Collection Date: Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]

Genre: Pictorial works
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Etchings England London 1754
Annotations (Provenance) 18th century
Material: etching with drypoint ; and laid paper.
Resource Type: still image
Subject (Name): Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic): Homes and haunts
Estates
Dwellings
Subjects: Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England) > Pictorial works
Estates
Dwellings
England > London > 1754
18th century
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ms. notes
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Knight, William, -1847 > Ownership