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Screen of the Holbeinchamber
Title
Screen of the Holbeinchamber [graphic] / Morris sc.
Publication
[Strawberry-Hill] : [Printed by Thomas Kirgate], [approximately 1784]
Physical Description
1 print : etching with engraving ; plate mark 20.1 x 23 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 25 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Publication information from that of the volume for which the plate was engraved.
Plate engraved for: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry-Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784.
Provenance
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
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
Depiction of the firescreen, the pierced arches of which are from the gates of the choir of Rouen with the rest designed by Richard Bentley, that was commissioned by Horace Walpole for the Holbein Chamber of Strawberry Hill.
Variant and related titles
Screen of the Holbein Chamber
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 07, 2016
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Book illustrations.
Etchings - England - 1784.
Also listed under
Strawberry Hill Press (Twickenham, London, England)
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