- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1784]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Ed25 no. 1 Box 100
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- An image of an outbuilding and the printing house at Strawberry Hill. A figure believed to be Thomas Kirgate stands in the road in front of the two buildings holding a large portfolio under his arm
- Description:
- Title and date written in ink within wash-line mount, in unknown hand., Possibly the drawing used as the model for an engraving by Francis Jukes entitled "Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill" which attributes the drawing to E. Edwards., and Also written in light pencil, lower left edge: "The original drawing." In the same hand, on the right, "M.A. Rooker" [i.e., Michael Angelo Rooker?].
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784 [drawing].
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- Creator:
- Edwards, Edward, 1738-1806, artist
- Published / Created:
- [1783]
- Call Number:
- SH Views Ed25 no. 8+ Box 200
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm
- Alternative Title:
- Printing house at Strawberry Hill
- Description:
- Title from original drawing in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University; also the title of a later state with aquatint by F. Jukes., Sheet trimmed within platemark, with loss of title and printmaker's name., State before aquatinting was added?, Title handwritten on mount: Printing house at Strawberry Hill., Lewis Walpole Library: On verso, possibly in the artist's hand: The seat of the Honle. H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham., Manuscript note on verso: "The Seat of the Hon[able] H. Walpole, in the Parish of Twickenham.", and Mounted on board image framed with gray wash-lines, to 37 x 42 cm.
- Publisher:
- publisher not identified
- Subject (Name):
- Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810,, Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Estates, Printers, and Outbuildings
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill] [graphic]