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Door of the cottage
Title
Door of the cottage [art original] / J. Chute des.
Production
[Twickenham?], [not after 1776]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pencil with pen and brown ink ; sheet 9.1 x 12 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title and statement of responsibility written below image on mounting page, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Date of production based on John Chute's death date.
Mounted on page 176 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 door and front facade of the cottage on the grounds of Strawberry Hill. The gable roof portico is decorated with the letter "H" followed by three cross crosslets and then the letter "W", as well as with a star near the peak of the gable. Two rectangles (windows?) with images of tools flank the doorway; a short fence with a quatrefoil design is in the foreground.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 04, 2017
References
John Chute, Door of the Cottage. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
John Chute, Door of the Cottage. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Pencil works.
Ink drawings.
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