- Creator:
- Shepherd, Thomas H. (Thomas Hosmer), artist
- Published / Created:
- [1843]
- Call Number:
- Quarto 485 842 C76 IV Copy 3
- Collection Title:
- Volume 1, page 161. Catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image
- Abstract:
- The auctioneer George Robins is shown full-length in profile to the left, sitting at a small table draped with a tablecloth, an inkwell and a goblet on the table in front of him. He sits on the 16th-century oak chair from Glastonbury Abbey, an item from Horace Walpole's collection at Strawberry Hill that Robins auctioned off in 1842
- Description:
- Title devised by cataloger., Signed with initials and dated by the artist in lower left corner of image., and Bound in as page 161 in volume 1 of Thomas Mackinlay's extra-illustrated copy of A catalogue of the classic contents of Strawberry Hill collected by Horace Walpole.
- Subject (Name):
- Robins, George Henry, 1777-1847, and Strawberry Hill (Twickenham, London, England)
- Subject (Topic):
- Auctioneers, Tables, Chairs, Writing materials, and Drinking vessels
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > [Portrait of George Robins sitting at a table] [art original]
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