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Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill
Title
Farm yard and printing house at Strawberry Hill [graphic] / drawn & etch'd by E. Edwards. A. ; engrav'd in aquatinta by F. Jukes.
Edition
[State with aquatint added].
Publication
London : Published as the act directs Feby. 1st, 1784, by F. Jukes, No. 1 Great Marylebone Street, [1 February 1784]
Physical Description
1 print : etching and aquatint ; sheet 20.3 x 25 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title etched below image.
Also signed in image: E.E. 1783.
Later state, with aquatint added. For earlier state, see Lewis Walpole Library call no.: SH Views Ed25 no. 8+.
Sheet trimmed within plate mark.
Two related drawings in The Lewis Walpole Library, one possibly the original.
Provenance
Strawberry Hill sale, viii, 33. London, 1123. Later owned by William Knight.
Bequeathed by Mrs. Damer, with her collection, to Sir Jonathan Wathen Waller.
Sold at Sotheby's 29 April-1 May 1880 (Bull sale), lot 886, to Ellis, £110. Offered by Ellis & White in Catalogue 46, ca. 1881 for £210. Sold at Sotheby's 15(16) June 1920?, lot 243 to Lynch, (C. Constable Curtis of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire), £255.
Summary
View of a wooden barn on the left, with a small square house surrounded by a picket fence beyond and a row of trees running between them; a whet-stone standing near a log in the field in front and a man in the right foreground (Thomas Kirgate, the printer) standing holding a volume tucked under his arm.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 07, 2017
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Etchings - England - London - 1784.
Aquatints - England - London - 1784.
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