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Entrance of Strawberry Hill
Title
Entrance of Strawberry Hill [graphic] / E. Edwards delin. ; J. Newton sculp.
Publication
[Strawberry-Hill] : [Printed by Thomas Kirgate], [approximately 1784]
Physical Description
1 print : etching ; sheet 20.8 x 15 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
First state of the plate, before volume and page numbering added in upper right corner.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the print was made.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Original: Edwards, Edward. Strawberry-hill. [Twickenham, 1781] 1 drawing : watercolor ; image 19 x 13.5 cm., mounted to 23.6 x 17.8 cm. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Provenance
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver.
Summary
A view of the entrance to Horace Walpole's house Strawberry Hill and the 1759 wing shows a servant emerging from the studded front door on his way to the kitchen via the Little Cloister. There was no internal communication between the hall and kitchen on the ground floor.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 28, 2016
References
Gascoigne, B. Images of Twickenham. Richmond-upon-Thames : Saint Helena Press, 1981, 291
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Etchings - England - 1784.
Also listed under
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
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