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View of Twickenham from the garden of Strawberry Hill
Title
View of Twickenham from the garden of Strawberry Hill [art original] / by E. Edwards 1783.
Production
[Twickenham], [1783]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pen and ink and watercolor, with wash-line mount ; sheet 18 x 38 cm, mounted to 25.4 x 46 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title, statement of responsibility, and date from note in brown ink on verso, in Horace Walpole's hand.
Signed with initials and dated by the artist on mount: E.E. 1783.
Formerly laid in 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
View from the garden at Strawberry Hill, Horace Walpole's estate in Twickenham, with the Thames visible in the middle distance at right. A man on horseback travels the road on the near side of the river; another figure stands by the obelisk at the junction of roads near the center of the image. Mr. Briscoe's house is seen beyond the obelisk; other buildings are faintly visible further down the river in the far distance. Two men, one holding a broom and the other kneeling down next to a basket, work in the field in the foreground.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 23, 2017
References
Edward Edwards, View of Twickenham from the Garden of Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Edward Edwards, View of Twickenham from the Garden of Strawberry Hill. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Views.
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
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