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Gallery at Strawberry Hill
Title
Gallery at Strawberry Hill [art original] / E.E. 1781.
Production
[Twickenham], [1781]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink and watercolor, with wash-line mount ; sheet 13.5 x 17.8 cm, mounted to 18 x 22.1 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title written on mount below image.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount.
Mounted on page 105 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. Later owned by William Knight. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Sabin, August 1927.
Summary
Drawing of the view looking down the Gallery at Strawberry Hill. Paintings hang on the walls and busts and urns sit on tables and pedestals throughout the room. The wall on the left houses a row of windows. The wall on the right, punctuated wtih arched alcoves and a fireplace, is lined with four red settees. A long rug covers the floor. An ornate ceiling can be seen above.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 28, 2017
References
Edward Edwards, Gallery at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Edward Edwards, Gallery at Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
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