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 written in black ink in unidentified hand below image. and An amateur copy probably after the F. Jukes print of the same title, which was based on Edward Edwards' drawing "Printing-House at Strawberry Hill 1784". The original drawing is held in the Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subject (Name):
Kirgate, Thomas, 1734-1810., Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England), and Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
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)