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Birkhead in Kings Vale royal sable, 3 garbs or a border argent [Arms of Derehaugh]
Title
Birkhead in Kings Vale royal sable, 3 garbs or a border argent [art original] ; [Arms of Derehaugh].
Production
[England], [not after 1797]
Physical Description
2 drawings : pen and brown ink ; sheet 18.4 x 11.7 cm, inlaid to 27 x 21 cm
Medium
laid paper.
Notes
Title of top drawing from note in Horace Walpole's hand written beside it; title of bottom drawing supplied by curator.
Unsigned; attributed to Horace Walpole by curator.
Date of production based on Horace Walpole's death date.
Two small drawings on one sheet, positioned above and below twelve lines of manuscript in Horace Walpole's hand beginning: Sir Jeffery Burwell's mother was daughter & heiress of Jeffery Pitman ...
Mounted on page 121.5 in Horace Walpole's extra-illustrated copy of: Walpole, H. A description of the villa of Horace Walpole ... Strawberry Hill : Printed by Thomas Kirgate, MDCCLXXIV [1774-1786]. See Hazen, A.T. Bibliography of the Strawberry Hill Press (1973 ed.), no. 22, copy 3.
Provenance
Sold at Strawberry Hill Sale, day iv, lot 152, to Thorpe, £11.0.6; offered in Thorpe's Supplement for 1842, lot 13219, for £21, and again in 1844; Sotheby's, 26 July 1855 (Charles Meigh Sale), lot 1822, to Toovey; Anderson, 12 November 1919 (Avery Sale), lot 961, to George D. Smith for the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, $375. New York Public Library, February 1950, to W.S. Lewis, by exchange to Yale for the Lewis Walpole Collection.
Variant and related titles
Arms of Derehaugh.
Format
Images
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 16, 2020
References
Horace Walpole, Birkhead in Kings Vale Royal Sable, 3 Garbs or a Border Argent; Arms of Derehaugh. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Horace Walpole, Birkhead in Kings Vale Royal Sable, 3 Garbs or a Border Argent; Arms of Derehaugh. The Lewis Walpole Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Subjects (Local Yale)
Genre/Form
Ink drawings - British - 18th century.
Amateur works.
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