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Marble sarcophagus
Title
[Marble sarcophagus] [art original].
Production
[England], [not after 1824]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; sheet 11.1 x 23 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 203 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
Drawing of a large antique sarcophagus in marble in the garden at Strawberry Hill with bas-relief images of griffins, cattle skulls, and a woman holding a bowl of fruit on her head.
Format
Images
Added to Catalog
May 18, 2016
References
G.P. Harding, Marble Sarcophagus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
G.P. Harding, Marble Sarcophagus. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 19th century.
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