Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery the end. End where the great door is. [art original]

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Description

Title
Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery the end. End where the great door is. [art original]
Alternative Title
End
Published / Created
[not after 1797]
Publication Place
England
Description
Titles from notes in ink at top of images.
Unsigned; artist unidentified.
Date based on death date of Horace Walpole, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing is mounted.
Two drawings on a single sheet, one above the other.
Each drawing has a numbered key at bottom of image that identifies the pictures that hung on the depicted wall.
First two in a series of four drawings showing the layout of the walls of the Gallery at Strawberry Hill, with the number "1" written in upper right corner of sheet. On verso is the third drawing in the series: [Catalogue of pictures in the Gallery] : chimney side.
Tipped in as page 121.18 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 31.0 x 19.6 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been completely digitized.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
49 2523
Collection Title
Page 121.18. 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
Ink drawings
Material
pen and brown ink ; and laid paper.
Resource Type
still image
Subject (Name)
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Subject (Topic)
Homes and haunts
Pictures
Doors & doorways
Subjects
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Homes and haunts
Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
Pictures
Doors & doorways
Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 > Ownership

Access And Usage Rights

Access
Public
Citation
Catalogue of Pictures in the Gallery: the End. End Where the Great Door Is. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
15644086
Object ID (OID)
33207381

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