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Kitchen garden
Title
Kitchen garden [art original].
Production
[Twickenham?], [not after 1797]
Physical Description
1 drawing : pencil ; sheet 18.2 x 31 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title written below image in the artist's hand.
Attribution to Horace Walpole from local catalog card.
Also attributed to John Chute; local catalog card quotes a manuscript note from Michael McCarthy that formerly accompanied the drawing: "This is Chute's hand, and came with the Chute drawings from Dr. Ricci in 1926."
Date based on Horace Walpole's death date.
Formerly laid in (placed there by W.S. Lewis) Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of his: A description of the villa of Mr. Horace Walpole. Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, 1784 (Lewis Walpole Library call number: 49 3582). See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 30, copy 12.
Provenance
Seymour de Ricci to W.S. Lewis, 1926.
Summary
Sketch of the kitchen garden at Strawberry Hill. Grass walkways, flower beds, shrubs, and rows of trees are among the features labeled on the drawing.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 07, 2017
References
Horace Walpole, Kitchen Garden. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Horace Walpole, Kitchen Garden. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Pencil works.
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