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View of Les Rochers, the country house of Madame de Sevigné, in Britagne
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Title
View of Les Rochers, the country house of Madame de Sevigné, in Britagne [art original] / copied by Miss Ponsonby, of the Ladies Cottage, N. Wales.
Production
[Twickenham], [ca. 1790]
Physical Description
2 drawings : gray wash with wash-line borders ; image 10.9 x 10 cm and image 11.1 x 9 cm, on sheet 23.2 x 33 cm
Medium
wove paper.
Notes
Title and statement of responsibility written in ink below image.
Copied from the drawing, done on the spot by Mr. Hinchliffe in 1786, that was kept by Horace Walpole in the Breakfast-Room at Strawberry Hill.
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 250 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.
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
Two wash drawings, both oval views, of Château des Rochers-Sévigné. In the image on the left the road leading to chateau is on at right, with trees on the left. The image on the right depicts the chateau from the opposite side, with three paths in the foreground leading to a garden. An engraved portrait (12.7 x 7 cm) of Anne Geneviève de Bourbon-Condé, duchesse de Longueville, is mounted at center of sheet between the two drawings (see separate record).
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 24, 2018
References
Miss Ponsonby, View of Les Rochers, the Country House of Madame de Sevigné, in Britagne. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Miss Ponsonby, View of Les Rochers, the Country House of Madame de Sevigné, in Britagne. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
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Genre/Form
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Wash drawings - British - 18th century.
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