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Elevation of the columbarium at Strawberry Hill
Title
[Elevation of the columbarium at Strawberry Hill] [art original].
Production
[Strawberry Hill], [1757]
Physical Description
1 drawing : grey and brown wash with pencil and ink ; sheet 24.2 x 34 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title devised by cataloger.
Date from Horace Walpole correspondence to Sir Horace Mann 20 November 1757: "... a new Gothic columbarium is a new thought of my own, of which I am fond and going to execute at Strawberry Hill."
With a note in Horace Walpole's hand in ink in lower right: N.B. There is an error in this drawing. The radius of the bow, wanting near a foot. The Ichnog will correct it.
With watermark along lower edge of paper, trimmed: D and C Blauw.
Formerly mounted on leaf 49 in an album assembled by Horace Walpole: Drawings and designs by Richd. Bentley ... [Strawberry Hill], [circa 1760].
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day viii, lot 57, to William Knight, Esq., £4.2.0; London sale number lot 1255 of the 10th day of sale, with the lot number still preserved on spine. Sold by Spencer through Fletcher to W.S. Lewis for £210, May 1926.
Summary
One of a series of design drawings for a Gothic columbarium at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's villa in Twickenham; this drawing with scale and images of statuary and vases.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 06, 2017
References
Harris, J. Catalogue of British drawings for architecture, decoration, sculpture and landscape gardening, 1550-1900, in American collections, pages 25
Richard Bentley, Elevation of the Columbarium at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Richard Bentley, Elevation of the Columbarium at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Design drawings.
Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
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