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Round ossuarium with a bird on the cover
Title
[Round ossuarium with a bird on the cover] [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; sheet 12.7 x 10 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 90 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 depicting one of the ossuaria kept by Horace Walpole in the Library at Strawberry Hill. The sides of the ossuarium are decorated with images of rams' heads and a hunting scene involving a lion running from men with bows and arrows; the cover is topped with a perched eagle.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
March 07, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Round Ossuarium With a Bird on the Cover. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Round Ossuarium With a Bird on the Cover. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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