- Creator:
- Harding, G. P. (George Perfect), 1780-1853, artist
- Published / Created:
- [not after 1806?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 33 30 Copy 11
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- Wash drawing of the chimneypiece in the Little Parlour at Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill villa in Twickenham. Its design was taken from the tomb of Thomas Ruthall, Bishop of Durham, in Westminster Abbey. A saracen's head, the crest from the Walpole family arms, sits atop a blank shield at the center of the mantel
- Description:
- Title written in brown ink below image, in a contemporary hand., Signed by the artist in ink in lower right corner using his monogram: The letters "G" and "P" below with an "H" centered above., Date of production based on death date of Richard Bull, who assembled the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears., Mounted on page 52 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 13., and For further information, consult library staff.
- Subject (Name):
- Walpole, Horace, 1717-1797 and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Homes and haunts and Chimneypieces
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Chimney in the Little Parlour [art original]
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