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Etruscan cup with owl on it
Title
[Etruscan cup with owl on it] [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : watercolor ; sheet 10.5 x 13 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 34 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.
Provenance
Sotheby's 14 July 1924 (Miscellaneous Sale), lot 183 to Spencer. Formerly owned by Kirgate's friend William Bawtree (1744-1824) engraver. Purchased from Spencer, June 1951, £100; ex dono Annie Burr Lewis.
Summary
Watercolor drawing depicting the black and orange Etruscan cup owned by Horace Walpole at Strawberry Hill.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
February 04, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Etruscan Cup With Owl on It. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Etruscan Cup With Owl on It. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Watercolors - British - 19th century.
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