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Cup of Mr. Place's china
Title
[Cup of Mr. Place's china] [art original].
Production
[England], [approximately 1790]
Physical Description
1 drawing : gray wash and watercolor ; sheet 8.2 x 7 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title devised by curator.
Unsigned; artist not identified.
Date of production based on probable date for Richard Bull's assembly of the extra-illustrated volume in which this drawing appears. See Hazen.
Mounted on page 43 of Richard Bull's copiously extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. 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 13.
With Richard Bull's note in ink, below image on mounting page: This cup is of Mr. Place's china, and of the same size as the original.
Provenance
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. Purchased by W.S. Lewis from Mrs. Curtis, of Langford Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, August 1937.
Summary
Drawing of a stoneware tankard made by Francis Place and owned by Horace Walpole.
Format
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Added to Catalog
January 11, 2018
References
Cup of Mr. Place's China. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Cup of Mr. Place's China. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
Watercolors - British - 18th century.
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