Front of Strawberry Hill to the garden, as it was in 1747, before it was altered As altered. [art original]
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Description
- Title
- Front of Strawberry Hill to the garden, as it was in 1747, before it was altered As altered. [art original]
- Creator
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797, artist
- Published / Created
- [not after 1797]
- Publication Place
- England
- Description
-
Titles from notes in ink below images, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator.
Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date.
Two small drawings on one sheet, side by side. The leftmost drawing, which shows the earlier iteration of the house, includes labels in Walpole's hand: Mrs. Chenevix's library ; East bed ch. ; East parlour ; staircase ; closet ; kitchen.
Mounted on page 121.11 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3. - 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. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
- Extent
- 2 drawings : sheet 10.9 x 16.7 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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English
Collection Information
- Repository
- Lewis Walpole Library
- Call Number
- 49 2523
- Collection Title
- Page 121.11. 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]
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Views
Ink drawings
Amateur works - Material
- pen and brown ink over pencil ; and laid paper.
- Resource Type
- still image
- Subject (Name)
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), - Subject (Topic)
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Homes and haunts
Dwellings - Subjects
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Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Dwellings
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Citation
- Horace Walpole, Front of Strawberry Hill to the Garden, as it was in 1747, Before it was Altered; As Altered. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 15643165
- Object ID (OID)
- 33207371
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