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Seal with letter "R"
Title
[Seal with letter "R"] [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; circular image 3 cm, on sheet 3.5 x 4 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 159 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 a seal, probably one kept by Horace Walpole in the Tribune at Strawberry Hill.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
May 09, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Seal With Letter "R". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Seal With Letter "R". The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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