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Quiver with arrows, Indian lance and hatchet
Title
[Quiver with arrows, Indian lance and hatchet] [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; sheet 14.2 x 11 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Unsigned; questionable attribution to George Perfect Harding from local card catalog record.
Date based on date of William Bawtree's death.
Mounted on page 78 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
Wash drawing of the Indian weapons, in the Armoury at Strawberry Hill.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
March 02, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Quiver With Arrows, Indian Lance and Hatchet. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Quiver With Arrows, Indian Lance and Hatchet. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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