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Bridge over Cross-Deep in the approach to Strawberry-Hill
Title
Bridge over Cross-Deep in the approach to Strawberry-Hill [art original].
Production
[Twickenham], [1778]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash ; image 18.1 x 21.7 cm, on sheet 21.8 x 28.6 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title from note below image in Thomas Kirgate's hand.
Attribution to James Essex from annotation in Horace Walpole's hand on verso: Design for the face of a bridge over the rivulet at Twickenham which runs by Mr. Walpole's flower-garden and crosses the road between that and Mr. Briscoe's garden. Drawn by Mr. Essex.
Date of production from local catalog card.
Annotated in a later hand on verso: N. the back woud. run[?] to the angle of Mr. Briscoe's pole & the front woud. look sideways towards Mr. Walpole's garden, so as to be seen from the window of the Great Bedchamber.
Mounted on page 3 (formerly B) of Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance
Strawberry Hill Sale, viii, 33 (London, 1123) to William Knight; Sotheby's 30 July 1919 (Col. Fellows Sale), lot 159, to Sabin; Sabin, August 1927, to W.S. Lewis.
Summary
Wash drawing depicting one face of a bridge spanning a stream, with a depiction of the bridge's footprint drawn below. A scale bar is present at the bottom.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 02, 2017
References
James Essex, Bridge Over Cross-Deep in the Approach to Strawberry-Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
James Essex, Bridge Over Cross-Deep in the Approach to Strawberry-Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
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