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Gate at Strawberry-Hill
Title
Gate 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 15.4 x 13.4 cm, mounted to 19.7 x 17.7 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title written on mount below image.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount.
Mounted on page 171 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 garden gate at Strawberry Hill, Twickenham and the grounds beyond, with trees on either side.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 03, 2017
References
Edward Edwards, Gate at Strawberry-Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Edward Edwards, Gate 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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