Drawing depicting the shrine designed by Pietro Cavallini, brought to the chapel at Strawberry Hill from Rome in 1768. Four twisted Corinthian columns are at the base
Description:
Title devised by curator., Probably drawn by William Bawtree, perhaps in preparation for a similar engraving he published in 1798. For a description of the engraving, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: G,2.199. For a reproduction of the engraving, see: Walpole, H. Strawberry Hill accounts ... Oxford : The Clarendon Press, 1927, opposite page 128., Date based on date of William Bawtree's death., and Mounted on page 200 of William Bawtree's extra-illustrated copy of: Horace Walpole's A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole (Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784). See A.T. Hazen's Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 11.